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Conference: Willie Rennie MSP – A stronger Scotland within the UK
Speaking to Scottish Liberal Democrat Autumn conference in Glasgow, Willie Rennie MSP, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats said: On the first Sunday of this month I took part in a relay race over...
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Nick Clegg’s Conference rally speech – “We are the party of jobs”
Speaking at the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference rally in Glasgow this evening, Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is expected to say: Welcome to Glasgow. This year’s...
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Conference: Jo Swinson on payday lenders
Speaking to Scottish Liberal Democrat autumn conference in Glasgow today, Scottish Liberal Democrat MP and Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs Jo Swinson set out how she was taking...
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Conference Comment: What the papers say (2)
In an interview with the Guardian, Paddy Ashdown is however unequivocal. He says we should not turn our back on a future liaison with the Tories: Paddy Ashdown has urged his restive party to prepare...
View ArticleOpinion: Keep the Bank of England Independent
Conference on Monday will debate an amendment from the Social Liberal Forum (SLF) to the Economy Motion which calls the government to “monitor closely the progress of the Bank of England, ensuring it...
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The Independent View: Coalition should do more to promote the creative...
The Coalition Government’s record for the creative industries is mixed. On the plus side, innovations such as the Creative Industries Council are welcome and have enabled a lot of cross industry...
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Opinion: The Bank of England’s Independence – the Law
According to the Independent, Nick Clegg wants to take on the ‘left’ in his Party. In doing so he accuses the Social Liberal Forum’s amendments to the economics motion as “ending the Bank of England’s...
View ArticleConference: There is an urgent need for more social housing
Lord Shipley gives some of the background to Amendment 2 to the Economy Motion. A year ago our Party committed itself to building up to 300,000 new homes a year. The proposals were outlined in the...
View ArticleConference: Defending the Future will not defend the realm
The defence of the realm is the foremost responsibility of any government. The defence policy paper that will be debated in Glasgow this week is not only worrying, but potentially dangerous. The first...
View ArticleOpinion: Clegg’s rethink on immigration visa bonds needs a rethink
Plans to impose a blanket £3,000 ‘bail’ bond on all visitors from Nigeria, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are on hold after Clegg refused to “sign them off”, according to the Guardian . However...
View ArticleOpinion: Liberal Democrats must champion our economic achievements
It’s the enduring burden placed upon liberals that we are often found to have made the correct policies calls in the crucible of history. But we fail to turn such perspicacity into a victory in the...
View ArticleConference: Do the Liberal Democrats want more homes and more jobs?
Do the Liberal Democrats want more homes and more jobs? That and other questions that will get an answer, one way or another, when our Conference debates the economy today (Monday). One of the two...
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Conference comment: What the papers say (3)
Today’s big debate is on the economy and the Guardian reports Vince Cable and Nick Clegg at odds over future economic direction: Clegg has decided to stage what Cable and some on the left regard as an...
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Conference economy debate: Nick Clegg’s summation in full
Chairman Andrew Wiseman called Nick Clegg of Sheffield to summate on the economy debate. Nick said: Colleagues, just to show that I can also agree with Paul Homes, I strongly agree with Paul about what...
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Conference comment: What the papers say (4)
THAT email, the one giving a briefing to MPs on how to address the media, was always going to delight the political gossips. And so it proved. Shorn of the drama of a full out Farron versus Clegg...
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The Independent View: Will competition and choice open up the banking sector...
In light of the launch of this week’s Current Account Switching Scheme, the Liberal Democrat conference was well timed to ask at a fringe meeting: “Will competition and choice open up the banking...
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Nick Clegg’s speech to Lib Dem conference 2013
Nick’s just mounted the platform in Glasgow – here’s what he’s expected to say over the next 40 minutes or so… Three years ago – nearly three and a half – I walked into the Cabinet Office for my first...
View ArticleOpinion: Mr Cameron call a general election – we relish the challenge
I am pretty sure that everyone can remember where they were at on 7 May 2010. I, for one, was being staggered as I caught up with the results overnight that the Liberal Democrats had polled a...
View ArticleNick Clegg’s speech: my first impressions
This was Nick’s sixth speech to a Lib Dem autumn conference, and was his most relaxed and assured performance to date. As with the best of his Letters from the Leader, it worked because he took us...
View ArticleLDVideo: Glasgow 2013 party conference redux
Why attend a Lib De conference? And what happens when you do? Those are two of the questions communicatios firm covi set out to get answers to in this 5-minute video featuring Alison Goldsworthy, Vice...
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