Liberal Democrat Voice6m
First results not encouraging for Harris
I’m watching Election night on CNN, which provides a very pithy, statistical coverage of the results. My first takeaways are not encouraging for Kamala Harris. A Florida county which Biden won by ...
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Maiden speeches: Danny Chambers MP for Winchester
Danny Chambers made his maiden speech on Thursday 12th September in the Sir David Amess Adjournment Debate. Here is the text of the speech in full: Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. That was an ...
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Kemi Badenoch starts in denial about partygate
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Liberal Democrat Voice16h
US election – be ready for a long wait
Liberal Democrat Voice will be covering the US election results tonight and during subsequent days, giving you the chance to add your comments as the results unfold. Concerning the US presidential and ...
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Care Leaver Status as a Protected Characteristic
Following recommendations from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care headed by Josh McCallister of the Local Government Association, our Corporate Parent Advisory Committee (CPAC) decided ...
Liberal Democrat Voice1d
Janey Godley’s passing and lessons in political tribalism
As many readers will have seen in mainstream and social media, we lost the much loved Scottish comedian Janey Godley to ...
Liberal Democrat Voice5d
Is Angela Rayner talking about a revolution… in hyper-local government?
There are times, few and far between perhaps, when you suddenly find that you might get a bunch of things that you’ve been campaigning for a long time to get. You lobby Ministers and opposition ...
Liberal Democrat Voice5d
Falling between two stools: the British Overseas Territories
Unlike the Conservatives and Labour, which both made mention of the British Overseas Territories (BOTs) in their recent election manifestos, the Liberal Democrats made none at all in theirs. The last ...
Liberal Democrat Voice6d
Budget Special: Rachel Reeves speaks…
And so we have the first Labour budget, the first from a female Chancellor of the Exchequer too. And there’s an awful lot to take in – both tax and spend, as well as borrow, obviously. In terms of ...
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Ed Davey reacts to Kemi Badenoch becoming Conservative leader
Ed Davey has congratulated Kemi Badenoch on her election as leader of the Conservative Party and has pledged that the Liberal Democrats will be providing the strongest opposition to the Labour ...
Liberal Democrat Voice4d
A fairer budget is needed to protect family farms and keep them out of the hands of corporations
I want to start on a positive. The new budget has some good stuff. The cut to draft duty on beers in pubs, the implication of 10-year financial forecasts to end short-termism, boast to defence ...
Liberal Democrat Voice4d
A Vision for Change: embracing the political middle ground
No, Mo, I don’t want my party to be a ‘beacon of moderation’, standing safely in the middle ground, neither offending nor attracting but content to trundle along as the perpetual third party ...