New Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader to be elected
Or to be more precise, a new Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons is to be elected. … Read the full post »
Lib Dem policy and internal matters
Read here about the Liberal Democrats, including changes to how the party is run, new decisions on what should be party policy and other internal decisions and activities.
Two of the key parts of the Liberal Democrat policy process are the Federal Policy Committee (FPC) and the party’s federal conferences, which you can read more about in my posts specifically about them.
Liberal Democrat general election manifesto 2017
Read the Liberal Democrat 2017 general election manifesto in full along with Tim Farron’s launch speech. … Read the full post »
Former NHS England Chief Executive backs Lib Dem health plans
The former chief executive of the NHS in England, David Nicholson, has backed Liberal Democrat plans to put a penny on income tax to rescue the health and care service. … Read the full post »
Lib Dems set out plans to close the ethnicity pay gap
Liberal Democrats set out plans to introduce mandatory reporting on the ethnicity pay gap for organisations with 250 employees or more.
Lib Dems back continuation of Triple Lock for pensioners
More news is out about what will be in the Liberal Democrat general election manifesto: the Triple Lock for pensioners, one of the party’s achievements in coalition, is in there once again. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat general election manifesto preview: LDN #94
Liberal Democrat Newswire #94 previews the Liberal Democrat manifesto for the 2017 general election. … Read the full post »
Deadlines and dates for the Liberal Democrat autumn conference in Bournemouth
The next Liberal Democrat federal conference will be in Bournemouth on 16-19 September (keeping the new ‘temporary’ sort-of-shorter format). … Read the full post »
Trident voting figures: now and then
Here are the voting figures for the four big set piece debates over nuclear weapons policy at Liberal Democrat conferences in recent years. … Read the full post »
Lib Dems are Britain’s best vehicle for political change – Tim Farron
Where will liberal pro-Europeans, a group that includes people, even MPs, from across Labour, Conservative, Green, Lib Dem and no party, end up at the next general election? That was the question at the heart of Tim Farron’s closing speech at the Liberal Democrat 2017 federal spring conference. … Read the full post »
Britain is better than this: Tim Farron’s rally speech in York in full
Here’s what Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron had to say at the Friday night rally at the Liberal Democrat conference in York. … Read the full post »