Archive for general election manifesto
Lib Dem general election manifesto: round-up of our coverage
The launch of a party’s general election manifesto is a big story, so we’ve been covering it in a series of posts here on The Voice in the last 24 hours. If you’re just catching up on our coverage now, here’s a summary of the posts:
Liberal Democrat manifesto: advance peek – everyone can read the [...]
Liberal Democrat manifesto by numbers
The Liberal Democrat manifesto by numbers:
9 different formats for the manifesto (hard copy, video, on screen, iPhone app etc.)
6 photos of Nick Clegg
5 pages of index
4 pages of detailed costsing
4 steps to a fairer Britain
3 photos of Vince Cable
0 mentions of chocolate
Sarah Teather welcomes people to the launch and then Danny Alexander introduces the manifesto [...]
LibDem general election manifesto
Tomorrow is the launch of the Liberal Democrat general election manifesto, but you can see the main policies trailed in a post I’ve written over on Liberal Democrat Voice: Liberal Democrat manifesto: advance peek
Liberal Democrat manifesto: advance peek
Tomorrow Nick Clegg is launching the Liberal Democrat manifesto, but tonight The Voice can give you an advance peek at what it will be saying. We’d like to report that this is due to our cunning radio controlled artificial pigeon which we have flown in to the roof of Cowley Street and used to point [...]
Labour general election manifesto: what words are in it?
A quick visual summary of the Labour Party manifesto launched today, courtesy of the Wordle tool, showing which words feature most frequently: Most notable is the relative rarity of “families” despite the way in which saying “hard working families” has become almost an addiction for many British politicians in the last few years. Public services, [...]
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 [...]
