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Liberal Reform announces new Advisory Council and housing focus

By Alan Muhammed | Thu 17th September 2015 - 11:30 am

As part of the next stage of our development, Liberal Reform has set up an Advisory Council representing a broad group of campaigners and policy experts to advise the elected Board and help ensure our broad Liberal heritage is represented in the party.

I’m delighted that the following prominent Liberal Democrats have agreed to join the Council, with more to follow: Norman Lamb MP, Jeremy Browne, Baroness Jenny Randerson, David Laws, Miranda Green, Julian Astle and Baroness Kishwer Falkner.

Since Liberal Reform was formed a few years ago it has become clear that there is a real appetite in the party for balanced four-cornered Liberalism — personal, political, social and economic — and that all of these elements are needed for us to rebuild the party as a radical, progressive force.

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged autumn conference 2015, david laws, jenny randerson, jeremy browne, julian astle, kishwer falkner, liberal reform and norman lamb | 27 Comments

What people are saying about the Liberal Democrat manifesto

By Newsmoggie | Wed 15th April 2015 - 10:22 pm

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Let’s have a brief look around the internet to see what people are saying about the Liberal Democrat manifesto:

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged guardian, manifesto, sean kemp, stephen tall and times | 26 Comments

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Roz Savage MP writes: Liberalism is having a Moment. But does it have a future? (Roz Savage MP)
Reinvigorating the Royal Navy (Ben Edginton-Thomas)
Global Power or Euro-Atlantic leader? (Peter Chambers)
Lib Dems at the Edinburgh Festival (Caron Lindsay)
Diversity, standards, and the treatment of Professor Jason Arday (BLAC Liberal Democrats)

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Simon McGrath
@jennie "“Liberals have always been suspicious of too much power in too few hands.” *looks at direction of travel of internal party mechanisms the last fiv...
Jack Nicholls
Roz, I can't think of anything you ever write that I don't heartily agree with, frequently in letter and always in spirit. We've started (literally just started...
Peter Dunphy
The challenge of empowering local communities/councils etc is not that this will allow the house building or wind farms or railway lines that we need - they wil...
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