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A new “business bank” will be handed £1bn of taxpayers’ money in a bid to kick-start lending to small and medium-sized British firms, Business Secretary Vince Cable announces.

What is the mood of the Liberal Democrat party, halfway through the coalition? Channel 4 News asks three key questions of delegates at the autumn party conference.

Along with the politicians, press and party members, the Lib Dem conference will be awash with think tanks hoping to make their mark. But how do they influence policy and which appeal to Lib Dems?

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg hopes some crowd-pleasing new policy can help him shelter from the storm of poor poll ratings at his party conference.

In an interview with Cathy Newman at the Liberal Democrat party conference, Energy Secretary Ed Davey gives support to leader Nick Clegg, denying reports he is part of a secret plot to replace him.

Vince Cable started it when he admitted exchanging texts with Ed Miliband recently. Now it seems senior Lib Dems are falling over themselves to highlight their conversations with Labour.

Parents and grandparents will be allowed to draw on their pension pots to secure deposits for young family members in a bid to boost home ownership, Nick Clegg says.

Anybody worth more than £1m faces coming under scrutiny from inspectors in a fresh crackdown on tax avoidance announced by Liberal Democrat Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander.

Nick Clegg arrives at his party annual conference in Brighton. Gary Gibbon reports.

As Lib Dems gather for their annual conference, the deputy prime minister will give a speech to demand lower taxes for low and middle income earners as well as more tax on unearned wealth.

Channel 4 News’s award-winning Political Editor Gary Gibbon is set to host long-form interviews with leading figures from each party during this year’s party conference season.

Nick Clegg accuses the Conservatives of breaching the coalition agreement on Lords reform and says Lib Dems will not back boundary changes in the Commons as a result.

Liberal Democrat activists refuse to fully endorse the planned changes to the NHS in England leaving leader Nick Clegg at odds with party members.

Nick Clegg says he wants to introduce a “tycoon tax” to go after top earners who employ an “army of lawyers and accountants” to avoid paying tax.