Liberal Democrat Newswire #78: watch Tim Farron live on Sunday
Liberal Democrat Newswire #78 came out earlier this evening, with latest news about the Liberal Democrat conference in York. … Read the full post »
Read about the debates over all-women shortlists (AWS) in the Liberal Democrats and the evidence regarding the impact of introducing all-women shortlists.
Liberal Democrat Newswire #78 came out earlier this evening, with latest news about the Liberal Democrat conference in York. … Read the full post »
Here’s the leaflet being handed out at Lib Dem conference, quoting seven of the party’s MPs. … Read the full post »
Over on Lib Dem Voice, Jo Swinson – who was one of the leading opponents of all-women shortlists the last time the Lib Dems debated the issue at conference – has written a powerful piece about why she now supports them. … Read the full post »
Earlier today at the Scottish Liberal Democrats conference the full package of measures proposed by Willie Rennie and colleagues to improve the diversity of the party’s Parliamentarians, including all-women shortlists, was voted through. … Read the full post »
The Lib Dem conference in York will debate how to improve the diversity of the party’s MPs. Here are the details of what the law does, and doesn’t, allow. … Read the full post »
Back at the Autumn 2011 Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham, former party leader Paddy Ashdown talked about the biggest failure of his political career. … Read the full post »
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today the impact of all-women shortlist on the quality of candidates and MPs. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #76 came out last week, including the latest evidence on what really works in political campaigning. … Read the full post »
There have been 111 Liberal Democrat MPs in total since the party was founded in the late 1980s. 93 have something in common. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has drawn up a motion that will be taken to the party’s spring conference in York next month designed to broaden its representation in Parliament. … Read the full post »