Future of the Federal Board: what members say they want
After the disappointment and failure of the 2019 general election, an independent post-mortem was carried out into what went wrong. The findings of the Thornhill Review set a broad and challenging reform agenda for the party, which we’ve made good progress on implementing so far.
On the role of the...Read More »
Federal Policy Committee January 2022 Report
FPC members started the year bright and early with our first meeting last week. We cancelled our December meeting so we could all focus on North Shropshire, so this was our first meeting since November.
Big areas of focus for FPC this year will be further work on our messages and...Read More »
Our plan for 2022
In 2021 we achieved something we’ve not achieved since 1993: winning two Parliamentary by-elections in the same year off the Conservatives. We start this new year with a larger Parliamentary Party than any of us would have dared dream of a year ago. (A winning run that has continued with...Read More »
Vaccine passports give a false sense of security
Liberal Democrats have and always will support public health protections that work but the use of so called “vaccine passports” provides a false sense of security.
The Government has lost sight of why they put forward these measures in the first place – to reduce transmission of the virus. The vaccines...Read More »
North Shropshire: it’s on
I’ve often said history points to two routes for Liberal Democrat (and before that Liberal Party) revivals. One, which we’d much rather avoid, is a foreign disaster – Iraq, former Yugoslavia, Suez… The other is seizing electoral opportunities outside Westminster general elections to give us momentum, increased prominence and growing...Read More »