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Liberal Hero of the Week #62: Institute of Directors. My Liberal Villain is...
Liberal Hero of the Week (and occasional Villains) is chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum. Institute of Directors The professional body...
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My column for ConHome: The immigration choice for the Conservatives –...
Here’s my latest The Other Side column for ConservativeHome, published here on Tuesday. Who’d have thought a column talking about immigration, Europe and Ukip would get their readership so exercised?...
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Nick Clegg’s speech on immigration: baby steps in a liberal direction
When I read Nick Clegg’s immigration speech yesterday I breathed a sigh of relief. It’s sensible and mostly liberal. Which means it’s a stark contrast to his March 2013 attempt: that was probably the...
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Does everyone want to live in London?
That was my deliberately provocative question asked at The Guardian / British Academy round-table on immigration I took part in last week at Lib Dem conference – reported in the paper here under the...
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Immigration: are you more clued-up than the British public?
Here’s your starter for three: People sometimes talk about ‘net immigration’, meaning the difference between the number of people coming to Britain each year to live, and the number leaving Britain to...
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My open borders immigration policy is, I admit, a fantasy. The...
Here’s my latest The Other Side column for ConservativeHome, published here yesterday. My thanks as ever to the site’s editors, Paul Goodman and Mark Wallace, for giving a Lib Dem space to provoke –...
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“The rising tide of UK anti-immigrant sentiment”
That’s the headline of a piece I was interviewed for, published by Al Jazeera today. Here’s what I had to say: Few political issues have stirred the 21st century British state like immigration. As the...
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How Lib Dems should talk about immigration
This week saw the publication of an important report from the think-tank British Future called ‘How to talk about immigration’. Its central thrust is that the majority of the British public’s views...
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Liberal Heroes of the Week #82: David Willetts and Douglas Carswell
Liberal Hero of the Week (and occasional Villains) is chosen by Stephen Tall, Research Associate at CentreForum. David Willetts Conservative MP, former universities minister Reason: for opposing his...
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View image | gettyimages.com We saw the wrong way to talk about immigration last week – Theresa May’s “awful, ugly, misleading, cynical and irresponsible speech to the Conservative Party conference ”...
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