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Is your local party taking part in the Mid-Term Review?

By Geoff Payne | Published 5th February 2012 - 3:50 pm

It is hard to believe but we are shortly to approach the half-way point in this Parliament. It seems a very long time ago that the Coalition Agreement was negotiated and voted on at the Special Conference at the NEC in Birmingham. That document articulated several goals including deficit reduction and being the greenest government ever.

Having been in government for a little under two years, the time has come to take stock and consider what has been achieved thus far and what more there is to be done.

At Federal Conference in Birmingham, Norman Lamb MP ran a consultation session on …

Posted in Party policy and internal matters | 7 Comments

New Lib Dem appointments to government

By Prateek Buch | Published 3rd February 2012 - 1:39 pm

According to the No. 10 website, Ed Davey MP will replace Chris Huhne as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with Norman Lamb to replace Davey in his role at the Department for Business.

Completing the changes, Jenny Willott becomes an Assisstant Government Whip, and Jo Swinson replaces Norman Lamb as Nick Clegg’s PPS.

Congratulations to those Lib Dem MPs taking up new positions in government.

Posted in News | Also tagged chris huhne, ed davey, jenny willott, jo swinson | 6 Comments

Our time to lead the debate: Employee ownership

By Norman Lamb MP | Published 17th January 2012 - 11:29 am

In the debate on so-called crony capitalism two things are clear. First there is genuine and widespread anger at corporate greed and irresponsible capitalism. Second, politicians from the left have been groping around, without much success, trying to come up with convincing responses. Ed Miliband drew a distinction between producers and predators. But he failed to offer any answers.

We see power and wealth concentrated in the hands of the few – the benefits of success going to those at the top rather than being fairly shared between all those who generated that wealth. Even worse, company bosses too often get …

Posted in News, Op-eds, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged employee ownership | 10 Comments

Baroness Liz Barker writes… The Health and Social Care Bill in the Lords

By Baroness Liz Barker | Published 17th October 2011 - 2:53 pm

I have spent my entire working life in the field of health and social care. For many years I worked for Age Concern and for all my time in the Lords I have been a member of the Health and Social Care team. I am, and always will be, a passionate supporter of an NHS which is free at the point of need and open to all regardless of their ability to pay.

Although the Health and Social Care Bill only came to the Lords this week I have been working on it for several months along with Liberal Democrat colleagues, including …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged derek wanless, evan harris, health and social care bill, john pugh, NHS, nick clegg, shirley williams | 16 Comments

LDVideo at Conference | Farron on ‘Tory bashing’, Lamb on NHS reforms, and Ming on the Euro

By Stephen Tall | Published 21st September 2011 - 10:15 am

At Birmingham and so missing out on how the Lib Dem conference is being reported? Not at Birmingham and so missing out on seeing Lib Dem MPs and government ministers up close and personal? We hope these videos will help re-connect you…

Tim Farron’s Tory-bashing

(Available on the BBC website here.)

Norman Lamb on NHS changes

Posted in YouTube | Also tagged ming campbell, tim farron | 3 Comments

LibLink | Norman Lamb: Lib Dems are helping to make Britain a fairer country

By NewsHound | Published 20th September 2011 - 2:05 pm

Norman Lamb, Lib Dem MP for North Norfolk and political advisor to Nick Clegg, writes over at The Guardian about his view of how the party is delivering in government. First he defines the audience he is addressing: open-minded progressives:

For some on the left, the mere act of working with the Conservatives is a sin. We’ll never convince those people driven by hatred of the other tribe. But for progressives willing to examine the facts rationally, it is time to reassess the case. After all, 13 years of Labour government ultimately disappointed.

Norman then identifies two specific policy areas where he …

Posted in LibLink | 3 Comments

Opinion: Do we really want politicians to be “ordinary people”?

By Ben Maconick | Published 23rd April 2011 - 1:25 pm

Recently Ed Miliband’s Labour Party TV broadcast expressed his frustration that the world of politics wasn’t like the real world. Considering that the entire broadcast was along the lines of painting Ed Miliband as an ordinary guy, it got me thinking on the subject of whether we really want our politicians to be ordinary people. It seems common sense that we want the people who represent us, to be like us. I would question this assumption, especially when we look at some of the other requirements we place on them.

The first requirement is obviously that they are knowledgeable about the …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged david cameron, ed miliband, nadhim zahawi, nick clegg, tim farron, vince cable | 9 Comments

Dr Evan Harris fisks: What is really at stake on the health reforms

By Evan Harris | Published 14th April 2011 - 11:27 am

On 8th April Norman wrote an interesting article here entitled “The NHS: safe in our hands”. That article is a good basis on which to discuss a few of the problems with the bill and the Government’s approach so far.

We should be clear that Norman Lamb is one of the good guys, who spotted earlier than most the problems with the White Paper and the Bill, and has been very clear that it requires radical surgery. He has also been particularly concerned, and this week expressed this publicly, that the pace of change is financially (and …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged bmj, doctors, fisk, NHS | 23 Comments

The party strategy debate: rolling highlights

By Mark Pack | Published 13th March 2011 - 10:05 am

Note: If you’re catching up with this post after it was published, read it from the bottom up.

Final result – both amendment and motion passed overwhelmingly. The overall tenor of the debate was more good natured than might have been expected – people did not take the opportunity to express any unhappiness in strident tones, and the party being in coalition with the Tories until 2015 was accepted and expected, explicitly or implicitly, by all speakers. Tuition fees and NHS got mentions, but brief ones. Norman Lamb’s comments about the health debate (see below), however, were unexpected and welcome.

James Gurling, …

Posted in Conference, Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged david abrahams, david matthewman, david rendel, evan harris, gordon lishman, higher education, james gurling, shirley williams, simon hughes, suzanne fletcher, tim farron, triple lock, tuition fees, universities | 1 Comment

Disability Living Allowance and NHS motions: the aftermath

By Mark Pack | Published 12th March 2011 - 12:13 pm

There’s a common theme to the party’s official reactions to both the Disability Living Allowance (Mobility Component) and health reform motions being passed at conference today. That is to welcome the party staking out its own views on the issues, even where they clearly contradict those of Conservative ministers, and for two reasons.

First, it more clearly sets out where the coalition partners disagree on policy. As having a relaxed, adult approach to admitting in public that people in government don’t always agree on everything is something I’ve talked about in the past, this is certainly good to see – and …

Posted in Conference, Op-eds | Also tagged bob russell, NHS, paul burstow, welfare reform | 15 Comments

Rolling news from conference: Saturday morning

By Mark Pack | Published 12th March 2011 - 10:31 am

Richard Kemp summates on motion, asking people also to back both amendments; i.e. cooperation rather confrontation to improve bill. Some MPs vote for amendment 1, some abstain. Amendment overwhelmingly carried. As is amendment 2. Lines 6-15 deleted from motion, amended motion carried. All MPs can spot voted for.

Evan Harris summates on amendment 1. “It is unusual for me to summate on a debate where there have been no speeches against my amendment”. Says government ministers must work hard to change the bill radically. Amendment 1 lays out how it should be improved – and Liberal Democrats in government “should follow …

Posted in Conference, News | Also tagged benefits, evan harris, fpc, john pugh, lembit opik, lord alderdice, mike german, NHS, richard kemp, welfare, welfare reform, welfare reform bill | 1 Comment

Opinion: Coalition must resist the easy option of raising interest rates

By David Thorpe | Published 1st January 2011 - 1:20 pm

When historians looking back on Gordon Brown’s career are searching for an epitah, they may well settle on the former Chancellor’s claim to have “abolished boom and bust”.

Questionable at the time it was uttered, the crash of 2008 rendered it a nonsense, but there are lessons to be learned for the coalition as they try to unravel the mess left by the Labour Government. The comment mentioned above is an example of a Chancellor falling victim to hubris, and the Coalition must be careful to not to be afflicted by the same condition.

Inflation and how best to prevent it wrecking …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged economy, gordon brown | 22 Comments

Tuition fees: which way will MPs vote on Thursday?

By Mark Pack | Published 6th December 2010 - 6:36 pm

Today saw a weird piece of media face with an impostor conning several news outlets into reporting that Edinburgh West MP Mike Crockart was going to resign as a PPS and vote against the tuition fees increase. The impostor even got as far as being interviewed by the BBC on the World at One before the hoax was rumbled. His office said that, “Mike is still waiting to see what the final offer will be before he votes and that has always been our line”.

(Ironically just before this took place, I was in Millbank to appear on the BBC’s …

Posted in News | Also tagged charles kennedy, greg mulholland, higher education, mike crockart, ming campbell, tuition fees, universities | 76 Comments

The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Private Secretaries

By Mark Pack | Published 2nd October 2010 - 11:10 am

The appointments of various LibDem MPs to be PPS to ministers have been rather low-profile, so in case you have missed any here is the complete list:

Gordon Birtwistle – PPS to Danny Alexander
Mike Crockart – PPS to Michael Moore
Duncan Hames – PPS to Sarah Teather
Jo Swinson – PPS to Vince Cable
Jenny Willott – PPS to Chris Huhne

and in addition Norman Lamb as Chief Parliamentary and Political Adviser to Nick Clegg is also his PPS.

Posted in News, Parliament | Also tagged duncan hames, gordon birtwistle, jenny willott, jo swinson, mike crockart | 10 Comments

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