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Day: September 22, 2009

  • Policy Committee says no to Clegg: game over?

    18 of the 29-strong Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee have signed a letter in the Guardian today asserting that… …as a clear majority of members of the FPC, we think it would be valuable to clarify now that we predict that our commitment to scrap tuition fees, as part of our plans to create a…

  • Taking risks is about more than stunts

    I get the impression that Guy Aitchison is getting frustrated with me. While conceding that the Lib Dems need to take more risks, I keep dismissing suggestions that we should do things like David Marquand’s idea about self-organising elections to the Lords (my response here) and Mark Littlewood’s idea about fielding a candidate in Buckingham…

  • Our Vince: From Fred Astaire to Mr Bean?

    As a follow up to my piece about Lib Dem economic policy this morning, I’ve written an article on Comment is Free about Vince Cable and why he is starting to be a bit of a problem for the Lib Dems: I have huge admiration for Vince. Six years ago, when I was experiencing a…

  • The Liberal Democrat post-credit crunch economic policy. A blow by blow account.

    John Harris wonders why the Liberal Democrat party faithful seems so incapable of defining what the Liberal Democrats stand for, unlike the masterful Vince Cable. A clue may come in the fact that the party’s core message on the economy has changed in a significant way on at least eleven separate occasions over the last…