MP conference fringe league table 2014: Norman Lamb hits an all time high
Basically, if you’re in Glasgow and Norman Lamb isn’t in the room, the chances are you’ve got to the wrong venue by mistake. … Read the full post »
Read about the former Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker. He held the seat from 1997 until 2015 and was a government minister 2010-2014.
His political memoirs are titled Against the Grain.
Basically, if you’re in Glasgow and Norman Lamb isn’t in the room, the chances are you’ve got to the wrong venue by mistake. … Read the full post »
Edition #51 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out last week, looking at the latest twists in the race to succeed Tim Farron as Party President, arguments over the rules for electing party committees, new developments in the party’s policy plans for 2015 and more. … Read the full post »
There are now once again four candidates in the race to succeed Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron in this autumn’s election. … Read the full post »
Abuse of stop and search has been a long-running Liberal Democrat concern, taken up previously by London figures such as Lynne Featherstone MP and Brian Paddick. … Read the full post »
Via the BBC comes welcome news of action on animal welfare from a Liberal Democrat minister, Norman Baker. … Read the full post »
Unusually for me, I’m starting writing this piece about DRIP and civil liberties without knowing what conclusion I’ll come to by the end of it. … Read the full post »
The new safeguards being brought in sound cautiously promising, but it is a real shame Nick Clegg’s quote implies agreement with the idea that there’s a trade-off between security and civil liberties. … Read the full post »
There has been a consistent thread running through Nick Clegg’s most recent government reshuffles: get good campaigners into posts where they can run successful high profile campaigns. … Read the full post »
Nick Clegg has been reshuffling the Liberal Democrat ministerial team. Here are my first thoughts… … Read the full post »
Back for its fifth year is my Liberal Democrat conference fringe meeting league table, showing how many fringes each MP will be speaking at. … Read the full post »