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Mental health – an issue whose time came at Glasgow

By Paul Walter | Thu 9th October 2014 - 8:54 am

Based on my circumambulation of the Glasgow conference corridors, there were three highlights concerning mental health:

1. Oxford West and Abingdon conference representative, Matthew Sumption made his maiden speech in the pre-manifesto debate. He’s currently taking time out from university study. But, my goodness me, what a brave young man he is. He basically stood up and said that he is undergoing treatment for mental illness.

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Posted in Conference | Also tagged Danny Alexander, mental health and nick clegg | 5 Comments

Lib Dem pre-manifesto launched: includes policies to reform drugs laws and bus pass discount for under-21s

By Stephen Tall | Mon 8th September 2014 - 1:30 pm

Last week’s pre-manifesto launch by the Lib Dems was postponed owing to the international situation. Thankfully no important news has broken over the past couple of days which might over-shadow today’s launch. Unless, that is, you think the potential break-up of the UK or a new Royal Baby are headline-grabbing events.

You can read the Pre-Manifesto in full below.

The party trailed its publication today with a couple of announcements intended to highlight key policies:

‘Exclusive: Liberal Democrats to announce decriminalisation of all drugs’ headlined Politics.co.uk:

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Posted in News | Also tagged featured, general election 2015 and liberal democrat manifesto 2015 | 32 Comments

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