Whatever the weather, there will be sandals and socks aplenty in Bournemouth this weekend, as the Lib Dems descend on the coastal town for their party conference. Frustration boiled over recently, with one MP warning leader Sir Ed Davey to drop his “bullshit” stunts. But the Lib Dems insist this is an outrider opinion, with one insider telling me that many Lib Dem parliamentarians were “pissed off” at the outburst. One area in which the Lib Dems have made a stand that has had some cut through is on the war in Gaza. At a time at which there is a horrendous, and horrendously unpopular, Labour government, and a Conservative party in seemingly terminal decline, the Lib Dems should be offering more.