Haiti's government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council, marking the most concrete step toward reviving the electoral process in years after political turmoil and later violence thwarted previous attempts.

Graham Colley has stood twice for the Lib Dems at elections this year. Firstly, as their Kent Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) candidate in May and most recently as their Rochester and Strood candidate at the general election.

Voters want to see MPs working together, Lib Dem chief whip to say - The party is staging its first conference since returning to be the third largest in the Commons.

Haiti's government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council, an initial step needed to hold the Caribbean nation's first general elections since 2016. Haiti's transitional presidential council - a separate body which has been acting as the government since it was installed in April - established the electoral council in a meeting,

The Liberal Democrats have held a council seat in a by-election. Peter Allen was elected to the North Jesmond seat in Newcastle for the Liberal Democrats, which had been vacated by Gerry Keating earlier in the summer due to ill health.

The Lib Dems will work "constructively" with Labour to get a "fair deal for the UK", the party's chief whip will say at the opening of their annual conference.