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Caron Lindsay

What’s going on at Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference today?

By Caron Lindsay | Fri 26th February 2016 - 7:55 am

Today, Scottish Liberal Democrats gather in Edinburgh with less than 10 weeks to go before the Scottish Parliament elections. The Spring Conference is being held in the Assembly Rooms on George Street.

In the hall

On the agenda in the hall today are public services (delivery and empowering workers), tax reform, establishing a Scottish Office of Budget Responsibility to give independent analysis to economic forecasts, the rights of children and young people and giving power to island communities.

Scottish Conference agenda Friday

Willie Rennie makes his keynote speech, too.

On the Fringe

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