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Young Liberals

By Jack Worrall | Thu 18th June 2020 - 2:00 pm

I wanted to write this article because I wanted to follow on and add a different view point into the mix about the Young Liberals. I have been encouraged to see many articles by folk who want the very best for the Young Liberals and the party. I feel though that there are a few things that I want to add.

I am going to let you all into a little secret – the Young Liberals are far from perfect. But I will say that everyone who holds a position in YL is trying their best even though we don’t get it right all of the time. Let’s review the last year of Young Liberals activity:

Multiple Young Liberals used YL’s Young & Winning fund to help win their seats during the 2019 locals.
Viral videos during the European elections with over 20K views on one video alone.
Most well attended Young Liberals Conference with new attendees counting for 1/2 of the total attendance.
New style guide so good the London Mayoral campaign adopted it.
Hosted LYMEC (European Liberal Youth) Conference.
Had to deal with the abysmal General election campaign.
Elected young members onto Federal Policy Committee, Federal Conference Committee, English Council Executive as well as a host of other YL sympathetic candidates.
Increased our grant from the English Party by £4,000.
All our delegates present at the English Council.
Rolled out a new accreditation scheme.
Recently we have held weekly webinars giving our members direct access to our MPs.
We were also gearing up to distribute Young and Winning grants to a diverse range of young candidates including women, BAME and LGBT candidates.