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CentreForum’s ‘Liberal Heroes of the Week’ #17 – Boris Johnson and Malala...

Welcome to the 17th in our series — Liberal Hero of the Week — as chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum.  The aim is to showcase public...

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Did you know the Lib Dems have lost half a million voters to Ukip? Here’s...

Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft — who, as ConservativeHome’s Tim Montgomerie has noted before, spends more on polling than all three parties combined — has today published the latest survey looking at...

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Vince Cable wins “Quote of the Day”

Asked in The House magazine about the Tories’ commitment to reduce net immigration to ‘tens of thousands’ a year, Vince sagely replies: “It’s not something Government [can deliver]… when you think...

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Nick Clegg’s illiberal hat-trick: now immigration joins ‘secret courts’ and...

Today Nick Clegg made a speech on immigration. He was due to deliver it in February but decided to delay it until after the Eastleigh by-election: I guess it wasn’t an issue he wanted to stir-up for...

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LDV Poll: Immigration – Lib Dem members have their say

Lib Dem Voice polled our members-only forum recently to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 650 party members...

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Liberal Hero of the Week #33: Bishop of Dudley, David Walker

Liberal Hero of the Week is chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum. The series showcases those who promote any of the four liberal tenets...

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Liberal Hero of the Week #35: Rick Perry, Republican Governor of Texas

Liberal Hero of the Week is chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum. The series showcases those who promote any of the four liberal tenets...

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Liberal Hero of the Week #36: Jo Swinson MP

Liberal Hero of the Week is chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum. The series showcases those who promote any of the four liberal tenets...

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Teather’s alternative voice on immigration: “it bothers me that there is a...

Good on Sarah Teather. This weekend’s Guardian carries an excellent in-depth interview with the Lib Dem former children’s minister by Decca Aitkenhead in which she makes clear her deep unease not only...

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Lessons of Coalition: what do the Lib Dems need to learn from the first 3 years?

We’re more than three years in. What started in the Rose Garden has turned into a bed of thorns. The quieter summer weeks are as good a time as any to reflect on the key lessons the Lib Dems need to...

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CentreForum Liberal Heroes of the Week #44: Conservative, Lib Dem and Labour...

Liberal Hero of the Week (and occasional Villains) is chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum.  Conservative, Lib Dem and Labour leaders on...

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David Cameron poaches Lib Dem tax-cuts idea. (But that’s not half as annoying...

It’s amazing how much more popular with David Cameron the Lib Dems’ flagship policy of taking the low-paid out of income tax is these days… Just today he celebrated delivering an income tax cut for 25...

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The 17th Tory policy Lib Dems have blocked: Clegg rejects Theresa May’s plans...

Perhaps the silliest proposal in a generally thread-bare Queen’s Speech in May was the Conservatives’ plan to ‘look busy’ on immigration. Yes, the party that claims to want to cut back red-tape for...

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As Channel 4 News goes on titillating ‘fishing trip’, Sarah Teather calls...

I wasn’t too impressed by the timing of Sarah Teather’s announcement — on the eve of the party’s conference — that she wouldn’t be standing as a Lib Dem at the next election. But I was impressed by her...

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It’s “Immigration Hysteria Day”. Again. Here’s how Lib Dems need to respond

Another day, another bout of “the UK’s about to be invaded by 29 million Bulgarians and Romanians” hysteria. But today it’s not Nigel Farage splattering mis-shapen statistics into the debate: it’s the...

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Nick Clegg reminder to drawbridge-up Tories on immigration: “We are an open...

It’s good to have the old Nick Clegg back today. You know the one I mean: the liberal leader willing to stick up for the free movement of people and take on the anti-immigration populists. Occasionally...

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Immigration: 87% of Lib Dem members back free movement of EU people; but 65%...

Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum  to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 750 party members...

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Liberal Hero of the Week #57: Nick Clegg

Liberal Hero of the Week (and occasional Villains) is chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum.  Nick Clegg Lib Dem leader and Deputy Prime...

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Immigration minister Mark Harper quits. An honourable resignation? Inevitable...

Mark Harper, Conservative immigration minister, today resigned after learning his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK. Here’s how the BBC reports it: Mr Harper notified Prime Minister...

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Farage says Britain’s becoming “unrecognisable”. But the British public says...

Ukip leader Nigel Farage was dog-whistling for all he was worth at his party’s spring conference this week: “In scores of our cities and market towns, this country, in a short space of time, has,...

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