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Young Liberals Conference Roundup

By Harvey Jones | Sun 23rd February 2025 - 2:46 pm

Last weekend, Young Liberals held our first Conference of 2025!

Unfortunately, due to issues with our venue, we had to cancel our plans to head to Cardiff for our first Welsh Conference in seven years, instead moving online. This was arranged very quickly, and I’m so grateful to the team of volunteers – including our Events Officer, Lucas and Policy Officer, Ulysse – who agreed to spend their weekend at LDHQ to help run the tech.

Policy

It wouldn’t be a Lib Dem Conference without policy and constitutional wonkery, and there was plenty of both this time.

We called out Labour’s unfair bus tax, calling for fairer fares, and an integrated ticketing network for bus transport in England. YL also supported a motion looking at how to bring disused railway lines back into use to boost connectivity across the country and improve access to electric vehicles such as mopeds to bring down costs.

We also called for the UK Government to recognise Somaliland in light of the ongoing crises faced by civilians there, and their desire to adopt a new constitution and align with the Commonwealth.

You can check out all YL policies here.

Training

For the first time at a YL Conference, we ran a number of parallel fringe and training sessions across the weekend. This more than doubled the time available for membership development and training and meant we could run sessions on a variety of campaigning, diversity, and party issues.