Lord Chidgey, Liberal Democrat who captured Eastleigh from the Tories in a spectacular by-election victory – obituary

With John Major’s government in trouble, the Lib Dems threw everything into the by-election campaign. Chidgey’s margin of victory would have been even greater had not Labour’s…

Lord Fearn, Liberal MP known as ‘Mr Southport’ who used his time in Parliament to champion tourism and rail commuters – obituary

He also took up the cause of rail commuters, saying punctuality on some lines in Kent and East Anglia was so bad that if British Rail had…