Conservative blogger Tory Bear, months after getting stuck in with gossip about Liberal Youth’s leadership election, has decided to close that particular chapter with an interview with the irrepressible Sara Scarlett, where he tries, unsuccessfully, to recruit her. She makes me feel like a party apparatchik, although she actually agrees with more Lib Dem policy than I do. “Go Figure” as the Americans say.

You can read the interview here. As a side note, it’s very revealing. It seems that young Conservatives are also counting on a new wave of more libertarian leaders and thinkers that’s just round the corner. I’m not sure that’s any more likely than it is in the Liberal Democrats, what with modern politics being highly interventionalist and managerial.

The challenge for all libertarians, whether they like it or not, in the Party system or not, is to engage with the political process and make it something that people want to vote for. Perhaps that’s where people like Sara come in. We’ve not seen the last of her, that’s for sure.