Archive for sarah teather
Campainging for Afifa Pervez in Brent
Brrrrrrr. It was off to the cold streets of Wembley Central this morning to go canvassing for Afifa Pervez in the ward which, during the 2001 census, has the highest proportion of overseas-born residents in the country. One quick look at the canvass cards showed how multicultural the area has remained and the doorsteps quickly [...]
The significant part of Tim Farron’s speech
Tim Farron is probably the Parliamentary Party’s best funny speech maker (though I’d pay good money to see him head-to-head in a laugh off with Alistair Carmichael), so it’s not a surprise that Tim’s speech to Liberal Democrat conference caught the headlines mostly for his humour and his stress-testing of political marriage analogies to destruction. [...]
The perils of projecting the impact of boundary changes from previous election results
There’s been an understandable flurry of interest in The Guardian’s reported projections of what boundary changes might mean for the parties, but there are two major caveats about the nature of such projections. From what I’ve seen, Lewis Baston (as I would expect) has done the numbers well, but not only do we not yet [...]
Sarah Teather talks about special education needs
Via YouTube: You can read more about Sarah Teather’s proposals and the questions she’s asking for feedback on over on Lib Dem Voice.
Internet and politics: how it worked back in 2003
A quick trip down memory lane for some historical perspective on the impact of the internet on political campaigning with this piece that I wrote for an academic email newsletter (the Political Marketing Group Newsletter) after the 2003 Brent East by-election. The lessons still look extremely relevant – making the point that principles of good [...]
Sarah Teather on the education funding settlement
I commented yesterday on the good deal Chris Huhne has got for environmental spending (due to go up by a fifth in cash terms over the spending review period). The best settlement for any ministerial area however looks to have been secured for Sarah Teather’s early years education brief – assisted by Nick Clegg’s own [...]
Sarah Teather announces plans for early years education
Liberal Democrat Children’s Minister Sarah Teather today spoke to Lib Dem Voice about her campaign to put a fair start for children at the heart of the government’s reform agenda. Her first announcement is a review of the Early Years Foundation Stage, which sets out what three and four year olds should do in pre-school [...]
The coalition agreement: public health and schools
Welcome to the seventeenth in a series of posts going through the full coalition agreement section by section. You can read the full coalition document here.
The public health section is very brief and rather anomalous as a section on its own, though given the length of the NHS section splitting this area off makes some sense. There is [...]
YouGov puts Lib Dems second, all three parties within margin of error
Time to say, “Oh sod it” to the usual rule on The Voice of not reporting individual polls on headline voting intentions:
Conservative: 33%
Liberal Democrat: 30%
Labour: 28%
Others: 9%
Fieldwork: 15-16 April.
The last time the party was this high in the polls was after Sarah Teather’s victory in the Brent East by-election, when YouGov made it C32, [...]
