Its leadership largely comes from the Liverpool area and the party is primarily based in North Yorkshire.

Radford stood down in 2009, and was replaced as president of the party by former councillor Rob Wheway, who served a year as leader.

Radford was re-elected party president in 2010, and has been elected for further terms by members in ballot at assemblies and by electronic voting.

[9] In Meadowcroft's book for this election, he advocated joining the Schengen agreement,[10] an idea which did not appear in the party's manifesto.

The Party in this period also opposed referendums with the line "It is dangerous to pretend that issues can be settled by a simple question with a yes or no answer", and instead preferred citizens' juries.

In the 2009 European Parliament election, the Liberal Party's Steve Radford participated in the No2EU electoral alliance.

At the 2001 UK general election the party's best local result was coming second behind Labour in Liverpool West Derby, pushing the Liberal Democrats into third place.

At the 2015 general election, the Liberal Party in Cornwall decided to not contest any seats and urged its supporters to vote for UKIP.

[20] The party lost its last remaining unitary authority seat when Chris Ash of Dogsthorpe Ward of Peterborough City Council retired and no Liberal candidate stood.

In 2023, the party had 11 councillors on parish, town and community councils in Staffordshire, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire.

In May 2021, the party's only candidate at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, Derek Jackson in the Glasgow Southside constituency, was escorted from the count after arriving wearing rainbow arm-bands, yellow Star of David-style stars, and harassing Humza Yousaf, a candidate in the nearby Pollok constituency.