The first Social Liberal Forum project (technically the second one, as I will explain later) has now wheeled into view: The Ideas Factory. We want your ideas for what should be in the Lib Dem manifesto. Your idea will be critiqued by our dragons advisory board and opened to further debate. Visitors to the SLF… Continue reading What’s the big idea?
Tag: policy
EXCLUSIVE: Chamali Fernando quits the Lib Dems
I was woken this morning by texts asking if I’d heard that Chamali Fernando – putative candidate for London mayor and sister of party president candidate Chandila Fernando – has resigned the party. It transpires that his is apparently true. No word as to why, but I understand it happened before the vote on tuition… Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: Chamali Fernando quits the Lib Dems
Clegg, cuts and communication
The Lib Dem press office has just issued a press release about today’s PMQs. In it, he accuses Gordon Brown of deliberately misrepresenting Lib Dem policy on tax and spend: On numerous occasions you have deliberately misrepresented Liberal Democrat economic policy in the House of Commons, claiming that we propose a £20bn cut in public… Continue reading Clegg, cuts and communication