Mark Pack

Personally, I find it a bit fiddly navigating to the Liverpool conference paperwork on the main party website, so I've uploaded the two main booklets to Scribd for my own convenience. In case you find them useful too, here they are: Lib Dem Autumn 2010 Conference - Agenda Book Lib Dem Autumn 2010 Conference - Directory Book [...] »

That's the headline on an op-ed I have in today's Independent: "Just heard a rumour that Charles Kennedy will defect to Labour as soon as they find the WMDs in Iraq". So tweeted Liberal Democrat councillor Nick Barlow over the weekend, summarising one of the reasons why the story of Charles Kennedy's defection to Labour [...] »

Tackling the budget deficit may the coalition government's short-term overriding need, but its legacy will be both a stronger economy and also a fairer society according to the speech Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg gave earlier today. In a tightly packed room, Clegg addressed the massed ranks of the media in a way that previous Liberal [...] »

The Liberal Democrats are setting up a policy working group looking at information technology and in particular its implication for intellectual property. There will be consultation sessions at the party's conferences this autumn and in spring 2011, followed then by a policy paper to be debated at the autumn 2011 conference. Here's the consultation paper [...] »

The June/July edition of Parliamentary Brief ran this piece looking at the state of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party: With the party's unity under the spotlight of the media and in the gunsights of the Labour party, now is a good time to look at the underlying unity of the Liberal Democrats. Over the last five [...] »

Today's Evening Standard ran this letter from me: The polls are not just a surge in Lib Dems support but bit increase in the number of young backers of the party, and in the number of people saying they will vote overall. For the Tories to counter that energy with negative tactics, including “putting the [...] »

The Sunday Times reports: The Lib Dems last night said they would resist the squeeze from the two main parties and revealed a surge in donations, with £120,000, mainly in small sums, coming in during the 24 hours after the debate. You can make a donation yourself right now here. »

Journalists seem to have got a thing about the triple lock today, talking about how they've dug it up or found it hard to find. So far be it from me to tell them what to read, but back in November last year I posted up the text on Liberal Democrat  Voice. [Insert cliche of [...] »

I've done a review of the new book, "Why Vote Liberal Democrat" (edited by Danny Alexander), over on Liberal Democrat Voice: Danny Alexander may be the main name on it, but he is the editor – and the book is a collection of twenty-six short essays plus a foreword from Nick Clegg. Many of the [...] »

That headline is of course completely unrelated to Iain's comment about the quality of the Liberal Democrat email campaigns made here (start listening around 16:20 to get the context) »