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What Chris Fox did next

By Stephen Tall | Published 6th January 2012 - 3:45 pm

It’s four months since we reported the departure of party chief executive Chris Fox, who did such a good job of filling the big shoes of his predecessor, Chris Rennard.

Apparently, though, there is life beyond the Lib Dems — as PR Week reports:

Chris Fox today started in his newly created post of director of group comms at London-listed GKN, which employs around 40,000 people in 30 countries. … In an internal email to Liberal Democrat colleagues, Fox said there had ‘been few dull moments’ during his three-year spell with the party, adding: ‘I am looking forward to

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Tim Gordon appointed new Liberal Democrat Chief Executive

By The Voice | Published 28th November 2011 - 1:01 pm

Here’s the news from the party:

Tim Gordon brings to the role a lifetime of commitment to the Party, as a volunteer, campaigner and candidate, but also a strong commercial background and clearly demonstrated leadership qualities.

Tim Gordon has been a Party activist since his teens, when he first volunteered for the SDP “Yes to Unity” campaign, and has since campaigned in every major election. He stood as parliamentary candidate in Rotherham in 2005. He worked as a researcher for David Steel when he was Foreign Affairs spokesperson, and has been a member of several policy working groups over the years. He …

Posted in News, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged hilary stephenson, tim farron, tim gordon | 11 Comments

What do the Lib Dems need from the party’s next Chief Executive?

By Stephen Tall | Published 1st October 2011 - 3:45 pm

As readers of Liberal Democrat News — and the party’s website — will know the Lib Dem are searching for a new chief executive to succeed Chris Fox. Here’s the job ad:

The Liberal Democrat Party is appointing a new Chief Executive.
Liberal Democrat Headquarters, London, SW1

The Chief Executive leads the Party administration and directs the human, financial and administrative resources of the Party – both its senior professional team and its membership and supporter base. He or she will bring energy and outstanding leadership to this crucial job. The post is based in the Party’s new headquarters in the

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Posted in Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged chief executive, chris rennard | 10 Comments

Nick Clegg’s speech to the Liberal Democrats conference rally

By Nick Clegg MP | Published 17th September 2011 - 8:30 pm

Welcome to Birmingham, a city with a great, outspoken liberal tradition. The home of Joe Chamberlain, where Gladstone called for Home Rule in one of the most rousing speeches of his life, and where Lloyd George nearly lost his life when he spoke out against the Boer War. Now it’s the home of those great modern day, outspoken liberals – John Hemming and Lorely Burt.

I have spent the last few weeks criss-crossing the country, speaking to as many of you as possible, hearing your concerns and answering your questions. We did what Lib Dems do: discussed, debated, argued – …

Posted in Conference | Also tagged andrew reeves, chris lucas, john hemming, lorely burt | 3 Comments

Opinion: Time to face reality on conference security

By Simon McGrath | Published 10th September 2011 - 2:28 pm

Lib Dem Voice has carried a number of articles in recent weeks, reflecting wider discussions among Lib Dems, about the security arrangement for the Birmingham Conference. The tone of many of these discussions has reached a quite extraordinary pitch of self-righteousness and vituperation, in many cases based on hearsay and rumour.

Perhaps it would be worth looking at some of the facts about the security arrangements.

Firstly the idea that this is a decision which Lib Dems can take on our own is simply wrong. Many others attend our conference, the media, exhibitors and the workers in the venue, who in …

Posted in Conference, Op-eds, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged andrew wiseman, tim farron | 51 Comments

Chris Fox to step down as Liberal Democrats’ Chief Executive

By Helen Duffett | Published 5th September 2011 - 2:54 pm

Following Chris Fox’s decision, announced today, to stand down as Chief Executive at the end of November, Nick Clegg and Tim Farron have praised the transformation he has brought to the party organisation.

Chris Fox took over the role of Chief Executive in July 2009. During his time in the role he has led on strategy and the air war and headed up the executive team during the General Election. Since then he has focused on modernising the party which culminated in a move to new high tech headquarters in the heart of Whitehall a week ago.

Chris Fox said:

Posted in News, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged featured, nick clegg, tim farron | 20 Comments

Liberal Democrats moving HQ : the future’s bright

By Helen Duffett | Published 26th August 2011 - 4:21 pm

As the sun sets on Cowley Street, Lib Dem Chief Exec Chris Fox emails party members with the HQ’s change of address and a brief look back, before taking “another big step for the party and our ambitious modernisation programme”. (He also includes a handy list of contact details for other parts of the party.)

Simon Cooper’s sneak-preview photos show that for LDHQ, the future’s bright:

Posted in News, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged cowley street, featured, ian wrigglesworth, ldhq, simon cooper | 11 Comments

Collette Dunkley appointed as Liberal Democrats’ Marketing Director

By Helen Duffett | Published 26th May 2011 - 1:49 pm

Collette Dunkley is to join the Liberal Democrats next week as Director of Marketing, reporting to Chief Executive Chris Fox.

Collette, who was born in Liverpool, has led marketing and communications in global organisations including General Motors and Vodafone. She has also lectured on these subjects in various universities, advised many large organisations and is an expert and commentator on increasing engagement with women.

The new Marketing Department at Cowley St will bring together internal and external communications. These will include development of our messages and the ways we deliver them, as well as collecting vital feedback. Collette will undertake an …

Posted in News, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged collette dunkley | 11 Comments

Revealed: The Liberal Democrats’ new HQ

By Helen Duffett | Published 21st May 2011 - 9:35 pm

The Liberal Democrats plan to relocate this summer to a new headquarters in Westminster, close to Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament.

The party has chosen newly-refurbished offices on the second floor at 8-10 Great George Street, opposite the Treasury.

Party staff can look forward to a modern, open-plan office on one floor, in contrast to the current Cowley Street offices – which are arranged over five floors, in an array of dolls’-house type compartments.

At around 7000 square feet, the floor area is …

Posted in News, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged cowley street, featured, great george street, SDP | 29 Comments

Chris Fox writes: Changing the way we support campaigning

By Chris Fox | Published 13th May 2011 - 7:46 pm

After three days of consultations with staff and discussions with people such as Regional Chairs I am now able to update you regarding the way we hope to take our campaigning forward.

Some of you will have seen or heard rumours about major changes in the way we support campaigning – some accurate and a lot less so.

It is my responsibility as Chief Executive to ensure that our professional organisation remains as effective as possible and makes best use of the resources available to us. The changes we have made at Cowley Street since the last General Election are already well known, …

Posted in Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged hilary stephenson | 18 Comments

Chris Fox and Lorely Burt continue in post

By Mark Pack | Published 4th July 2010 - 10:50 am

Chris Fox, the party’s interim Chief Executive, has been appointed to the post permanently whilst Lorely Burt, chair of the Parliamentary Party (in the Commons) has been re-elected unopposed. Best of luck to them both.

Posted in Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged lorely burt | 1 Comment

Liberal Democrat policies in Government

By Alex Foster | Published 12th May 2010 - 5:46 pm

Chris Fox, the Lib Dem Chief Exec, has circulated this helpful summary of which of our policies are included in the agreement. It’s slightly easier to wade through than the full text, which we brought you earlier.

A Fair Start for Children

Introduce a Pupil Premium to give all children a fair start.

Fairer taxes and Economic Reform

A substantial increase in the personal allowance from April 2011 with a longer term policy objective of further increasing the personal allowance to £10,000, making further real terms steps each year towards this objective
Reform of the banking system, ensuring a flow of lending to

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Posted in News | Also tagged agreement, coalition, summary | 8 Comments

New Lib Dem song – Hit, Miss or Maybe?

By Helen Duffett | Published 17th March 2010 - 2:34 pm

Party members have just received this email from Lib Dem Chief Executive Chris Fox:

At our successful spring conference last weekend, a number of delegates came up to me to ask about the music they heard at the rally, opening each session and on the video before Nick’s speech. This music is called We’ll be the change that works for you and it has been specially prepared for the election. The more you listen to it the catchier it gets.

Following the positive comments we got at conference we wanted to make it available to members and supporters and I am delighted to say that it is now available via iTunes. There are a number of ways you can find it – if you go to the iTunes store and search any of the following, it’s in the top results:

The LD Community Choir (straight to track)
LD Community Choir (straight to track)
We’ll be the change
Change that works for you
Alternatively, there is a direct link using this URL (this will launch iTunes if you have it installed):

www.itunes.co.uk/theldcommunitychoir

If you are trying to access the track and have not used iTunes before, this link should then show you how to download it.

We have prepared a number of different versions, but the one available here has a long instrumental introduction that can be used for a variety of campaigning events and it ends with the rousing chorus we all heard when Nick Clegg ended his speech on Friday.

Yours,

Chris Fox
Chief Executive, Liberal Democrats

PS Of course if enough of us all download it in the same week we might just creep into the charts! Please encourage friends and family to download this as proceeds go into the campaign fund.

Lib Dem Voice didn’t receive a review copy, so I’ve coughed up my 79p and downloaded my own legal copy.

Posted in Conference, News | Also tagged iTunes, LD Community Choir, singing | 25 Comments

Ros Scott writes … Party President’s report to members, January ’10

By Baroness Ros Scott | Published 2nd February 2010 - 8:15 pm

In the two months since my last report, the election campaign has started in all but name.

After a phenomenal amount of work by the manifesto team – led by Danny Alexander, the party’s policy unit headed by Christian Moon, and the Federal Policy Committee – we have now established the broad outlines of our campaign:

Reform of the tax system to create a fairer base,
introducing the pupil premium to give all children a fairer start in life,
creating sustainable housing and jobs and
political reform to bring in a fairer voting system, and

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Posted in Op-eds, Party Presidency | Also tagged anna werrin, christian moon, danny alexander, dave hodgson, featured, federal policy committee, john sharkey, jonathan fryer, party reform commission, robert woodthorpe brown, roy thompson | 1 Comment

Ros Scott writes… Party President’s report to members, November ‘09

By Baroness Ros Scott | Published 15th December 2009 - 10:30 am

The two months since the party’s last Federal Executive have, as usual, been pretty busy. In that period I have visited local parties in Aldershot, Altrincham & Sale, Winchester, Islington, Sutton, Wycombe, Amersham & Chesham, Swindon, Gloucester, Stroud, Cheltenham, East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow North, Edinburgh Pentlands, North & Leith, West, Ochil, and Consett. I have also attended the North West and West Midlands Regional Conferences.

The two meetings of the party’s Chief Officers Group which I have attended are reported separately to FE, but I wish to highlight the work done to develop the business plan and budget which were …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged ACT, chief officers group, chris bones, christian moon, eldr, featured, federal executive, federal policy committee, ralf dahrendorf, robert woodthorpe brown, roy thomson | 4 Comments

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