There will almost certainly be several sore heads this morning as Alistair Carmichael held one of his celebrated whisky tasting events last night.
Here’s what’s happening the rest of today.
Morning Session
Cervical Cancer Screening
Police Reform
Speech by Christine Jardine MP
Emergency Motion
Animal Welfare
Lunchtime Fringe
I am shamelessly abusing my position to put the meeting I’m chairing first – about addressing Scotland’s housing crisis with Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP and speakers from Shelter Scotland, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and the Chartered Institute of Housing.
There’s also an NFU Scotland fringe meeting with Mike Rumbles discussing The Good Food Nation and Brexit – what will be needed to develop the right policies for food producers.
Commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking
Afternoon session
Benefits of immigration – federal working group members please note the positive tone of this.
Willie Rennie’s Leader’s Speech
Establishing real freedom of choice – this is probably the most contentious motion of the Conference, calling for decriminalisation of abortion.
Constitutional amendments
Evening Fringe
ASLDC AGM
RNIB Scotland – Making elections truly inclusive – encouraging people with disabilities to stand and making election materials accessible.
Evening events
Conference Dinner
The legendary Scottish Young Liberals quiz
* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings
One Comment
Regarding the motion on cervical screening it would be good if we sometimes looked at the cost effectiveness of different types of screening, the impact of false positives and the unnecessary medicalisation of women’s bodies. We do tend to assume that all health spending is always good in all circumstances.