Archive for Party policy and consultation
Lib Dem conference to debate changes to party election rules
Good news on the Wednesday morning of the Liberal Democrat autumn conference in Birmingham. The Federal Executive’s very sensible proposals to relax the rules on campaigning in internal party contests will be voted on after a debate scheduled for 9am-9:30am. As I wrote previously of the proposed changes: Regular readers of The Voice may notice [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Liberal Democrat plans for the NHS
A few days ago Liberal Democrat spokesman Norman Lamb (aka the man who beat Iain Dale by 10,606 votes in 2005) kindly gave up some time to be interviewed about the party’s plans for the NHS.
Having previously pointed out that the party’s “four steps to a fairer Britain” doesn’t include how we will improve public services, [...]
Digital Economy Bill debate: what’s set to happen tomorrow?
The story so far:
Emergency motion on the Digital Economy Bill submitted (see full text on Bridget Fox’s blog)
Federal Conference Committee treat it fairly generously – as emergency motions do not normally get into the territory of drawing up significant new party policy (because, by their nature, the wording is only published at the last moment [...]
Danny Alexander commits party to seeking further changes to Digital Economy Bill
Speaking at the Liberal Democrat spring conference this morning, Danny Alexander MP (Vice Chair of the Federal Policy Committee and chair of the party’s General Election Manifesto Group) said the party will seek to make further changes to the Digital Economy Bill when it comes to the Commons.
The Bill, currently passing through the Lords, has [...]
Race Equality and the Liberal Democrats
That’s the title of a pamphlet from Liberal Democrat Equality Spokesperson Lynne Featherstone and published by the Runnymede Trust.
It starts:
Over half of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black African children in the UK are growing up in poverty. Infant mortality is more than twice as high among Pakistani and Caribbean groups than white British children. Almost every ethnic [...]
Why vote Liberal Democrat? Book review
If you go to Amazon searching for “Why vote Liberal Democrat?”, edited by Danny Alexander and just published by Biteback, you may be surprised to find yourself being presented instead with a book of the same title from 1997, written by William Wallace. The new book is misfiled by Amazon under the title “Why vote [...]
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 [...]
