Archive for evan harris
Huge public support for removing sex discrimination in royal inheritance
With the Royal Family very much in the news at the moment, a recent YouGov poll asked if people thought the rules favouring men over women when it comes to succeeding to the throne should be changed: Currently male children of the monarch takeprecedence over female children in terms of thesuccession. Do you think men [...]
Federal Policy Committee elects its three Vice-Chairs
Last night Cambridge MP Julian Huppert, former Oxford West and Abingdon MP Evan Harris and Jeremy Hargreaves were elected to be the Federal Policy Committee’s three Vice-Chairs. Evan and Jeremy have long been high-profile figures in the party’s policy-making process and Julian has rapidly joined their ranks as his profile in the party has risen [...]
More details of Lord Lester’s libel reform bill released
Yesterday I covered the news that Liberal Democrat Lord Lester is going to table a bill to reform libel law. He’s now released details of what approach the bill will take:
Introduce a statutory defence of responsible publication on a matter of public interest;
Clarify the defences of justification and fair comment, renamed as ’truth’ and ‘honest opinion’;
Respond to [...]
Over £6,000 raised online for Evan Harris
Regular readers of my posts about online politics will know my scepticism of the extent to which online fundraising can work in the UK on the same scale as it does in the US (e.g. because there’s a different attitude towards supporting causes by giving money rather than time in the US and because in [...]
New government powers to snoop on your post – forced through by Labour and Tories
The ramming through of the Digital Economy Bill during Parliament’s ‘wash-up’ period has got the most attention, online at least. However there is another measure that was forced through, and this one without even a proper vote, which should have people up in arms.
A change to Section 106 of the Postal Services Act 2000 might [...]
How do Lib Dem MPs compare on Twitter? April update with a new number one
Changes in position and score are since March’s figures, and the same caveats apply as before to these numbers from TweetLevel (i.e. Twitter isn’t the only thing in the world, and this isn’t the only way of measuring people’s influence on / use of Twitter).
New this month to Twitter are Evan Harris, Nick Harvey and [...]
Lib Dem MP Evan Harris MP joins twitter
Excellent to see Evan Harris, the MP for Oxford West & Abingdon, become the latest Liberal Democrat MP on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrEvanHarris I’ve also added him to my list of all Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter, which lets you follow them all in one place: http://twitter.com/#/list/markpack/libdem-mps
MPs vote to reform Parliament – and reject Tory/Labour plan to water down plans
From the BBC:
MPs have backed a series of reforms aimed at beefing up the ability of backbenchers to create new laws and hold the government to account.
Proposals backed include a creating a backbench committee to set a timetable for Commons business.
A bid by the Labour and Tory front benches to restrict the committee to setting [...]
The inside story of how the Lib Dem general election manifesto will be drawn up
The debates and disputes around the Liberal Democrats’ Bournemouth conference give a taste of what is likely to be a tricky process of drawing up the party’s manifesto for the next general election.
Formally, there is a three part process to that manifesto: the manifesto working group chaired by Danny Alexander will present work to the [...]
