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Clegg signals new approach to individual voter registration in evidence to Parliamentary committee

By Nick Thornsby | Published 9th February 2012 - 11:28 am

Last Wednesday saw Nick Clegg return for his annual appearance before the House of Lords Constitution Committee. As one might expect, a whole range of political reform and constitutional issues were covered in the 90 minute evidence session.

One interesting answer by the Deputy Prime Minister which caught my attention was on the topic of individual voter registration. Asked by Liberal Democrat peer Lord (Chris) Rennard whether there would be changes to the government approach as set out in the earlier White Paper when we see legislation on the issue soon, Clegg had the following to say:

The short answer is ‘yes’….We

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Posted in Election law, News | Also tagged chris rennard, constitutional reform, electoral registration, political and constitutional reform committee | 6 Comments

The fallout from Chris Huhne’s resignation

By Mark Pack | Published 4th February 2012 - 6:10 pm

I’ve been busy with the media yesterday and today giving my take on Chris Huhne’s resignation, so here are the two main highlights if you missed them:

The Lib Dem Voice survey results I mention are covered in the piece Which four Liberal Democrat ministers have most improved their standings in 2011? and for more on why I rate Ed Davey’s record see Community Buying: a welcome move from Ed Davey (an approach very relevant to his new post) and Ed Davey: someone getting the messaging right.

Helped by having known for a long time …

Posted in News | Also tagged chris huhne, diversity, ed davey, gender balance, jenny willott, jo swinson | 2 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: 72% of Lib Dem members backed reshuffle return for David Laws. (But it wasn’t to be.)

By Stephen Tall | Published 4th February 2012 - 2:45 pm

Earlier this week, LibDemVoice started asking party members signed up to our discussion forum a range of questions — the survey is still live, but one of the questions is already a little previous so we’re reporting it early…

We asked: Would you support or oppose David Laws making a return to government at the next reshuffle?

Yes – to a cabinet post 58%
Yes – but only to a non-cabinet post in government 14%
No – he should not return to the government at the next reshuffle 21%
Don’t know / No opinion 7%

In total, then, 72% of Lib Dem members in our sample wanted to see David Laws return to a ministerial post in the Coalition government, with most wanting to see him return to the cabinet 18 months after he was forced to resign.

Posted in LDV Members poll | Also tagged david laws, paul waugh | 1 Comment

Nick Clegg on being Nick Clegg in The House magazine

By Prateek Buch | Published 3rd February 2012 - 3:00 pm

Deputy Prime Minister gave a wide-ranging interview to The House magazine, in which he discusses how it’s right for the two coalition parties to differentiate themselves once a stable government was formed:

In the run-up to the general election, you may remember, the tabloids were screaming, saying that if there was a hung Parliament locusts would descend from the sky and the sun would be blotted out, you know… so we needed for those first few months to show the most important thing of all, which is this is a government that works, and actually works rather well.

Of course,

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Posted in News, Parliament | Also tagged coalition, lords reform | 1 Comment

E-petition backing up Nick Clegg’s wish to raise tax threshold

By Caron Lindsay | Published 1st February 2012 - 8:55 am

Readers may be interested in an e-petition on the HM Government website which calls on the Government to implement the tax cuts for the people on low and middle incomes which Nick Clegg called for last week. It says:

Please sign this to persuade George Osborne to fast track the Lib Dem policy to increase the income tax threshold to £10,000 in the next budget, and hence take thousands more people out of tax and put £700 back in people’s pockets. There are measures that can be taken to pay for this including the clamp down on tax avoidance and

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Posted in News | Also tagged e-petitions, tax | Leave a comment

LibLink: Mr Clegg Goes to Peterbrook

By NewsHound | Published 29th January 2012 - 5:55 pm

We’ve not often LibLinked through to the ‘Breaking News’ section of Peterbrook Primary School’s website. In fact we never have before. But their report of Nick Clegg’s visit, alongside local Solihull MP Lorely Burt, deserves a wide audience, and here’s a snippet:

Together with Solihull M.P Lorely Burt and an entourage of press and media broadcasters, Mr. Clegg came from London to see us so that we could share with him our curriculum developments using ‘Pupil Premium’ funding to support the learning and personal development needs of all pupils, with a specific focus at times, on those pupils who are eligible

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged lorely burt, pupil premium, schools, solihull | 3 Comments

In other news…

By Stephen Tall | Published 29th January 2012 - 4:45 pm

Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week…

Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt is taking on sexism in the BBC: ‘The BBC must ensure there are more women presenters and executives working on its radio network if it is to justify its licence fee, MP Tessa Munt said today after she found that in some cases there were fewer female voices than 25 years ago.’

The FT reports how Danny Alexander, Lib Dem Treasury chief secretary, has highlighted a crackdown on high pay in the public sector: Danny has

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Posted in News | Also tagged andrew stunell, chris huhne, danny alexander, tessa munt | Leave a comment

LDVideo: Clegg on RBS Hester’s pay – “these figures seem like they’re from another planet”

By Stephen Tall | Published 29th January 2012 - 9:40 am

The debate reverberated here on LibDemVoice yesterday: Should Stephen Hester accept his bonus? Here’s what Nick Clegg had to say about it all yesterday:

(Available on the BBC website here.)

And here’s how Jeremy Browne handled the issue on BBC1′s Question Time on Thursday night.

Posted in YouTube | Also tagged jeremy browne, stephen hester | 10 Comments

Cam’s Euro U-turn – this is what happens when you fail to negotiate

By Stephen Tall | Published 28th January 2012 - 5:50 pm

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth today on the right as evidence emerges that David Cameron is backsliding on his ‘veto’ preventing the European Union from enforcing fiscal integration among the Eurozone countries. Here’s how The Guardian reports it:

Ahead of Monday’s summit of EU leaders, which is due to finalise “political agreement” on the fiscal compact treaty, the government signalled that it would not challenge a role for the European commission and, more sensitively, would also allow resort to the European court of justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg to enforce new debt ceilings and fines for fiscal miscreants in

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Posted in Europe / International, News | Also tagged david cameron | 9 Comments

The weekend debate: Should Stephen Hester accept his bonus?

By Carl Quilliam | Published 28th January 2012 - 9:25 am

Here’s your starter for ten in our weekend slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate…

Since the £963, 000 shares bonus for RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester has been revealed there have been opinions pouring out from across the political spectrum.

When Ed Miliband accused David Cameron of a “failure of leadership” over it, Cameron promptly distanced himself from the process altogether, with George Osborne claiming it was due to rules put in place by Labour.

Boris Johnson seems to be against it, as is our usually economically …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged boris johnson, ed miliband, george osborne, jeremy browne, stephen hester, weekend debate | 28 Comments

LDVideo: Clegg – “the Coalition is calling time on our unfair and out-of-whack tax system”

By Stephen Tall | Published 27th January 2012 - 7:45 am

Nick Clegg’s tax cut speech dominated the political headlines yesterday — you can watch a 4-minute snippet below:

(Available on the BBC website here.)

Here’s what my LibDemVoice colleagues had to say about Nick’s call for lower taxes:

Clegg’s call for income tax cuts for the low paid is welcome, but will the Tories back him? by Nick Thornsby

Nick Clegg returns to income tax by Mark Pack

And here’s how the rest of the Lib Dem blogosphere reacted:

How will

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Posted in YouTube | Also tagged tax | Leave a comment

Clegg’s call for income tax cuts for the low paid is welcome, but will the Tories back him?

By Nick Thornsby | Published 26th January 2012 - 6:54 pm

It’s no secret that Nick Clegg is personally very committed to the Lib Dem – and now coalition – policy of raising the threshold at which people begin to pay income tax. It was one of the first big policies he argued for at conference after becoming leader, and was a key message during the 2010 election campaign. Clegg returned to the theme this morning, though, to call for the implementation of the policy to be speeded up.

Personally I think this intervention is very welcome, not only because the policy is a good and liberal thing in itself, but …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged income tax, tax cuts (Lib Dem) | 7 Comments

LibLink: Mark Pack – Nick Clegg turns media weakness into media strength

By Nick Thornsby | Published 26th January 2012 - 4:23 pm

Over on his work blog, The Voice’s Mark Pack has a post looking at the extremely successful media coverage of Nick Clegg’s speech on tax policy, with the party using the fact that much of the media is still surprised by the idiosyncracies of coalition to our advantage.

Here’s a sample:

In a country used to coalitions, having the leader of one of the parties in government talk about their tax priorities a few months ahead of a budget would not be remarkable. With the British media habits, it had made today’s speech from Nick Clegg to banner news – lead story

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged mark pack, media, neil stockley, tax, tax cuts (Lib Dem) | 2 Comments

Nick Clegg returns to income tax

By Mark Pack | Published 26th January 2012 - 7:34 am

Later this morning, Nick Clegg will be giving a speech to the Resolution Foundation (word cloud here) in which, after recent talk about wealth taxes, he is returning to the topic of income tax cuts. More specifically, speeding up the progress towards a basic income tax allowance of £10,000 whilst keeping the 50p rate.

This is of course closely linked to wealth taxes as they are a way to raise the funds to pay for the income tax cuts.

Posted in News | Also tagged resolution foundation, tax, tax cuts (Lib Dem), vince cable | 2 Comments

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