Archive for jo swinson
The fallout from Chris Huhne’s resignation
I’ve been busy with the media yesterday and today giving my take on Chris Huhne’s resignation, so here are the two main highlights if you missed them: The Lib Dem Voice survey results I mention are covered in the piece Which four Liberal Democrat ministers have most improved their standings in 2011? and for more [...]
Good question from Jo Swinson, good answer from Nick Clegg
Earlier today there was this exchange in Parliament: Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire) (LD): Will the Deputy Prime Minister reassure my constituents that the Government will resist any siren calls to water down the Equality Act as part of the red tape challenge? The Deputy Prime Minister: I can certainly confirm that, as far as I [...]
Meet the Lib Dem bloggers: Caron Lindsay
Welcome to the first in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator. Today it is Caron Lindsay, who blogs at http://carons-musings.blogspot.com. 1. What’s your formative political memory? Watching Roots when I was nine. I was shocked to the core by the cruelty [...]
Jo Swinson presents dossier of evidence that media images have negative impact on body image
From a party news release: Co-founder of the Campaign for Body Confidence and Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson has given the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) details of 172 scientific studies which show that exposure to idealised media images has a negative effect on body image for adults and children. The portfolio of evidence gives a [...]
The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Private Secretaries (UPDATED)
The appointments of various LibDem MPs to be PPS to ministers have been rather low-profile, so in case you have missed any here is the complete list: Gordon Birtwistle – PPS to Danny Alexander Mike Crockart – PPS to Michael Moore Duncan Hames – PPS to Sarah Teather Jo Swinson – PPS to Vince Cable [...]
The history of Prime Minister's Questions
Today sees Nick Clegg take to the Despatch Box to answer Prime Minister’s Questions in David Cameron’s absence from the UK. Several Liberal Democrats have taken to twitter expressing their anticipation, such as Jo Swinson: reserving a seat to watch a little bit of Lib Dem history later today – Nick Clegg taking #pmqs, first Lib [...]
Another step forward on modernising Parliament’s YouTube rules
The Guardian reports:
A ban on broadcasting video clips of the proceedings of the House of Commons on YouTube could come to an end in the coming weeks after months of delicate negotiations between the Palace of Westminster and broadcasters led by the BBC.
Existing rules forbid YouTube or any other website, such as a newspaper’s, from [...]
Royal College of Psychiatrists joins calls for airbrushed photographs to be labelled
From a party news release ahead of Jo Swinson and Lynne Featherstone meeting with representatives of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA):
Commenting on today’s report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists calling for airbrushed images to be ‘kitemarked’, Liberal Democrat MP, Jo Swinson said:
“The Royal College of Psychiatrists makes it crystal clear that airbrushing plays a [...]
How is Parliament doing at catching up with the existence of YouTube?
We’ve covered before the campaign by Jo Swinson and others to change the antiquated Parliamentary rules which ban MPs (and in theory other people too) from placing footage from Parliament on YouTube.
Here’s the latest from Jo Swinson about the campaign (via an update sent to fans of the campaign on Facebook):
In my last update I [...]
ASA bans ‘misleading’ Twiggy advert
From a party press release:
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against an Olay advert containing a heavily airbrushed image of the model Twiggy on the grounds that it was misleading following a campaign led by the Liberal Democrats.
The Liberal Democrats have called for airbrushed ads to be clearly labelled, and for airbrushing to be [...]
