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Liberal Action

By Tim Holden | Tue 9th December 2025 - 3:00 pm

Just like so many people, I went through much of my life following the politics I grew up with. Growing up in Wales, this was nationally Labour.

After years of following the Labour ideology without questioning it and spending many years involved with student politics, it was the Brexit vote that made me think. The morning the Brexit result was announced, my young daughter turned to me and said, “That’s rubbish, what are you going to do about it?” This was my turning point.

I soon found out that my political home was not Labour, and the personal views I had struggled with for years are actually those of a Liberal: liberty, equality, democracy, community, human rights, internationalism, and environmentalism.

The evening after the Brexit vote, I joined the Liberal Democrats and closed a 20-year chapter of active involvement in Labour. Not wanting to let my daughter down, I became actively involved in the early years of the anti-Brexit campaign and continue to do so until this day. My paternal grandparents would be horrified, as they had done the opposite decades previously, taking a lead with the anti-Common Market campaign.

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