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Mark Pack

It’s not Lib Dem policy; it’s better than Lib Dem policy

By Mark Pack | Tue 1st June 2010 - 10:09 pm

Yesterday Downing Street published a letter from David Cameron setting out the Government’s plans to open up data. Much of the letter is straight from the Conservative manifesto and very little is from the Liberal Democrat one. However, that is not a reason for Liberal Democrats to be nervous – for on these points the Conservative manifesto was more detailed and better than the Liberal Democrat one but laid out policies that could (and should) have happily sat in the Lib Dem one.

The broad principle is one of making data open and convenient:

Given the importance of this agenda, the Deputy

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