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Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Nawaz writes… We, as Lib Dems, must seek to liberalise

By Maajid Nawaz | Sat 14th June 2014 - 8:30 am

preambleThere’s no question that my party – the Liberal Democrats – took a battering in last month’s local and EU elections. Even my own prospective constituency, London’s Hampstead and Kilburn, was left shaken.

The Liberals Democrats are currently fair game across all sectors of society. But it is important for the public, and for party members, to know that it will not always be like this. Liberalism not only can, but must survive this.

It must survive because nobody wants a return to the pendulum years of Thatcher for three terms …

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