Archive for federal policy committee
Should the way members of federal committees vote be public?
At the end of my post on the Federal Executive’s decision that the Liberal Democrats should (mostly) not fight police commissioner elections, a decision at odds with the views of party members we surveyed, I made reference to the fact that the details of such votes are not published and usually remain confidential. Sometimes news [...]
New Lib Dem councillor representatives elected for party committees
Via the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors (ALDC) comes the news: Elections have taken place to elect the principal councillor representative on two Federal Party Committees for 2011-2012: On the Federal Executive Committee the following have been elected: Cllr Stan Collins (South Lakeland DC and Cumbria CC) Cllr Keith House (Eastleigh BC and Hampshire CC) [...]
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 [...]
How does the party’s policy-making work during coalition?
Here’s what the report to conference from the Federal Policy Committee (FPC) says on the matter: The FPC has had a number of discussions on the implications for its role and the Party’s policy-making of our new status as a party of government. The FPC is very clear that the Party’s complete independence in policy-making [...]
Julian Huppert elected to Federal Policy Committee
Julian Huppert, David Howarth’s successor as MP for Cambridge, has been elected to the party’s Federal Policy Committee (FPC). Julian is rather in the Evan Harris mode in that he’s very interested in (and knowledgeable about) scientific issues, keen to see evidence properly scrutinised, likely to be an active participant in the FPC’s work and, in as [...]
General election manifesto update
In the three months since I last blogged at length about the Liberal Democrat general election manifesto process, Danny Alexander (chair of the Manifesto Working Group) has won widespread praise for restoring a sense of peace, sense and order after the events around the party’s autumn conference.
On the two major flash points – mansion tax [...]
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 [...]
