Tag Archives: new year honours 2017

The Voice

New Year Honours: Congratulations to Liberal Democrats

By The Voice | Sat 31st December 2016 - 10:42 am

Late last night we published the news that Shirley Williams has been made a Companion of Honour in the New Year Honours.

But she is not the only Lib Dem to be honoured today.

 

Sir Steve Webb – as we will now know him – has been claimed by many to be the best Pensions Minister the country has known. Before his Parliamentary career he was Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath, so had an unprecedented level of knowledge and understanding in his field of expertise.

Continue reading »
Posted in News | Also tagged , , , and | 27 Comments
The Voice

Shirley Williams honoured

By The Voice | Fri 30th December 2016 - 10:30 pm

 

Congratulations to the amazing Shirley Williams who has been made a Companion of Honour in the New Year Honours list.

Tim Farron said:

Shirley is a liberal lion. She is a hero of mine and many, many others. She is a tireless and doughty campaigner for progressive politics. Britain is a better place because of her.

Her determination created the enlightened comprehensive education system we have today.

Shirley is also an inspiration for female politicians across the world. She is a trailblazer who has shown girls, like my own, that they can do anything they want to with skill, determination and passion.

Shirley Williams gives politics a good name.

Continue reading »
Posted in News | 6 Comments
Advert



Recent Comments

  • Mark Frankel
    PR will benefit Reform....
  • Tristan Ward
    @Mick Taylor From Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread (1892): "It is high time for the worker to assert his right to the common inheritance and enter into...
  • Peter Watson
    @Richard "I suspect that saying, for example, that we would add four pence to price of a litre of petrol to fund the lifting of the “education tax” would be...
  • Steve Comer
    David Allen has already expressed a lot of comments I would wholheartedly agree with. The debates on philospohy have been interesting, but the original post ta...
  • Tristan Ward
    @ David Raw I am indeed not familiar with Elisabete Mendes Silva's work, but I have gone back to my copy of On Liberty, where, in Chapter 5, Mill and Taylor ...