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Paul Burstow is new chair of the Parliamentary Party
A bit of party news today with various posts being filled. Paul Burstow has been elected chair of the Parliamentary Party, succeeding Lorely Burt who in the reshuffle became PPS to Danny Alexander. Meanwhile there have also been changes at both the Commons and Lords end to the Co-Chairs of various Liberal Democrat Party Parliamentary [...]
New Liberal Democrat PPS line-up
There are four new Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Private Secretaries following the reshuffle: Nick Clegg – Duncan Hames (and due to be Federal Policy Committee chair) – succeeds Jo Swinson who is now a minister Danny Alexander – Lorely Burt (hooray) – succeeds Gordon Birtwistle Ed Davey – Stephen Gilbert – succeeds Duncan Hames who is [...]
Extra post for Jo Swinson, new post for Lorely Burt as final pieces of reshuffle put into place
Alongside the sorting out of new PPS appointments following the ministerial changes, there’s been one surprise addition – the inclusion of a new Liberal Democrat Equalities Minister to take over from Lynne Featherstone because the new Lib Dem Home Office minister, Jeremy Browne, did not take over Lynne’s equalities brief when she moved over to [...]
Lorely Burt makes it 37 Lib Dem MPs on Twitter
Yesterday the MP for Solihull and the first female Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party, Lorely Burt, joined Twitter. This brings to 37 the number of Liberal Democrat MPs now on Twitter. She is @LorelyBurt and you can follow all the Lib Dem MPs on Twitter via this list.
Which of the five Lib Dem reshuffle options will Nick Clegg pick?
Five scenarios for your delectation: The Lib Dem night of the long beards The drastic, dramatic and painful option. Clegg says the Liberal Democrats need David Laws’s expertise and media savvy at the heart of economic decision making, restoring him to Chief Secretary to the Treasury and expressing tearful regret that Danny Alexander is off [...]
Chris Fox and Lorely Burt continue in post
Chris Fox, the party’s interim Chief Executive, has been appointed to the post permanently whilst Lorely Burt, chair of the Parliamentary Party (in the Commons) has been re-elected unopposed. Best of luck to them both.
Deputy Leadership: runners, riders, rules
So far, the Deputy Leadership election looks to be shaping up as a contest between Tim Farron and Simon Hughes. Tim is the one public candidate so far and there’s plenty of chatter about other possible candidates. In particular, there is an impetus from some quarters for a female candidate to balance out the all-male [...]
