Michael Steed

 News has come through of the death of Michael Steed, psephologist, electoral reform campaigner and a great Liberal. Along with Robert Mackenzie, he followed the path of scientific election forecasting beaten by David Butler and continued by John Curtice. My only two meetings with Michael Steed were at the Liberal Democrat Federal (Britain-wide) Conference held in York over a decade ago, when he and Gordon Lishman were trying to revive DAGGER, an electoral reform group. The two of them appointed me Treasurer, but since HSBC bank has managed to mislay all the documentation relating to the DAGGER account, there is practically nothing to be custodian of. 

There is a Liberal Democrat biography by William Wallace here.

Updated 2023-09-12