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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Fri 3rd Sep 2010
• [Sep 03] George Kendall writes: THIS thread is for you to say what you think should be done about the deficit:
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Sun 29th Aug 2010
• [Aug 29] Anushka Asthana and Toby Helm write: IN his first newspaper interview since becoming the government's axeman-in-chief, Danny Alexander says making tough economic decisions does not make him any less of a Liberal Democrat
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Thu 26th Aug 2010
• [Aug 25] Nick Clegg writes: THIS government has put delivering fairness at the heart of our agenda and, like the British people, we have a clear sense of what we mean by the word. Fairness is about every child getting the chance they deserve, regardless of their background . .
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Tue 24th Aug 2010
• [Aug 24] Caroline Pidgeon* writes: THE Mayor has announced that from February 2011, nine out of ten London Underground stations will have their ticket office opening hours reduced.
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Tue 24th Aug 2010
• August 24: A LONG held wish to drive an Aston Martin came true for Business Secretary Vince Cable when he visited the test track facilities at Gaydon near Warwick today. Dr Cable also test drove Jaguar's green car - the electric and petrol hybrid known as the Limo Green.
This innovative prototype project is a collaboration with Lotus, Caparo and research organisation MIRA and has received funding from the Technology Strategy Board. The chance to test drive the cars formed part of a wider visit to the West Midlands where he met business groups and toured a multi-disciplinary research centre. At the test track the Business Secretary talked to apprentices and engineers from both companies about the progress being made by the UK to enhance its low carbon vehicle capabilities. He said:
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Mon 23rd Aug 2010
• [Aug 22] Norman Lamb* writes: NOW is an exciting time for Liberal Democrats. We have the chance to implement ideas in Government - an opportunity denied our predecessors for many decades. For the next five years, instead of contributing ideas from the national sidelines with no real prospect of them ever being adopted, we have a real chance to realise key elements of our agenda. We have all come into politics to make a difference, to be effective. Liberal Democrat Ministers know that they carry the weight of the party's principles and expectations as they work in coalition with Conservatives.
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Fri 20th Aug 2010
• [Aug 20]: CONSERVATIVE claims that they will give residents 30 minutes free parking have been labelled a 'con-trick' by the Liberal Democrats, after it has been revealed that drivers will need to pay £2.50 to register for the scheme.
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Fri 20th Aug 2010
• THIS consultation paper is presented as the first stage in the Facing the Future review. It does not represent agreed Party policy. It is designed to stimulate debate and discussion within the Party and outside; based on the response generated and on the deliberations of the working group a full policy paper will be drawn up and presented to Conference for debate.
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Wed 18th Aug 2010
• [Aug 15] Cllr Jerry Elloy* writes: CONSERVATIVES are continuing to spread misinformation about the borough's CO2-based parking scheme, introduced by the Liberal Democrats in 2007. They are repeatedly describing the scheme as 'unpopular' and saying that the public rejected it in public consultation. Quite the opposite is in fact the case.
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Wed 18th Aug 2010
• [Aug 18] Nick Clegg: 'AS of today, the new Coalition Government is 100 days old. Inevitably there is a plenty of discussion about our performance to date. Everyone will have their own view about the start we have made. I am proud of our achievements so far, from civil liberties, to political reform, to steps to reshaping our public services. And of course, our first Budget, which set out our plans to repair the public finances.
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Wed 18th Aug 2010
• [Aug 17] Nick Clegg writes: IT'S 99 days since the new Coalition Government formed. The heat and fury of the General Election have already faded into memory. Voters have a full five years before they again decide who gets their support. If, by polling day, you felt worn down by the relentless advances of the political parties, even 2015 may seem too soon.
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Tue 17th Aug 2010
• [Aug 17] Lynne Featherstone* writes: WHEEL clamping on private land (and towing away) is to be banned by the coalition government. We had a commitment to tackle rogue wheel clampers in the coalition agreement - and now we are able to take this forward.
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Sun 15th Aug 2010
• [Aug 15] Nick Clegg writes: ALL new governments claim that they are governing for the long term: most end up being pushed around by short-term events. All claim they have a plan: most end up with no plan at all. All say they're going to ignore headlines: most end up driven round the bend by the press. So I understand why people might react with scepticism to the claim that, this time, this government will be different. But as this new coalition government approaches its first 100 days in office, I believe the claim is a strong one: we will govern for the long term and we'll stick to our plan.
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Sat 14th Aug 2010
• [Aug 14] Simon Hattenstone writes: 'SHIRLEY Williams has just turned 80. Yes, there was a little birthday party, and lunch with her daughter, but nothing more. "That's enough to be going on with, thank you," she says. There's no time to waste for Baroness Williams of Crosby, now that her party's finally got a share of government.
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Sat 14th Aug 2010
• [Aug 14]: Caroline Pidgeon* writes: IN London one of the most exciting developments this year has been the long awaited launch of the bike hire scheme.
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Wed 11th Aug 2010
• [Aug 01] David Shutt* (Lord Shutt of Greetland) writes: THIS is an unusual report in that it covers the activities of the Lords group in the final days of the Labour government until Spring 2010. This includes the period of 'wash-up' when decisions were made on the future of several bills that had not completed the normal scrutiny, and deals were done to get important but perhaps less contentious bills on to the statute book. The report then covers the first couple of months until mid-July of our activities in the coalition government
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Wed 11th Aug 2010
• [Aug 01] Alistair Carmichael* writes: THIS is my first report to Conference as Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats. It is also the first report that a Liberal Democrat Chief Whip has made from the government benches. It has been a long journey from April 12th, when the House was dissolved and the 2005 Parliament struggled to a close. Very few would have anticipated that just six months after the last Parliamentary Party report to Spring Conference, that the Liberal Democrats would be in Government.
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Wed 11th Aug 2010
• [Aug 01] Vince Cable* writes: THE Federal Executive Committee meeting of 17 March 2008 agreed to accept the strategy document presented by the National Diversity Adviser: 'Meeting the Diversity Challenge - From Barriers to Benefits'. In addition, the Executive also agreed to set up the Diversity Engagement Group (DEG) to oversee achievement of the Party's equality and diversity priorities. This initiative was to involve nominated 'Champions' from all sections of the Party in leading the new strategic and accountable body responsible for every aspect of delivering our diversity agenda and for reporting back to FE.
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Wed 11th Aug 2010
• [Aug 11] Chris Huhne writes: LABOUR were once a serious party. Whatever our disagreements, Labour wanted to tackle the real problems in our society. They brought independence for the Bank of England, devolution to Scotland and Wales, and a minimum wage. They once wanted to prove they could run the economy successfully. They said 'no more boom and bust'.
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Mon 9th Aug 2010
• [Aug 09] Decca Aitkenhead* writes: 'IT'S probably no coincidence that the MP the nation fell in love with not so long ago is less like a politician than any I have ever met. For a start, Vince Cable is the first secretary of state I've known to travel in standard class on ministerial business. I find him in wedged into a crowded carriage at King's Cross, looking rather like a university vice-chancellor - cerebral and unworldly, in a slightly crumpled suit, unrecognised and entirely at home in his anonymity. By a happy coincidence, the age of austerity appears to suit the new business secretary's temperament rather well.
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Sun 8th Aug 2010
• [Aug 08] Patrick Hennessy* writes: 'IN open-neck pink shirt and slippers Vince Cable, in many ways the unlikeliest member of the coalition cabinet, is sitting in his living room talking candidly about his experiences in government three months on from its formation. "People sometimes ask me 'are you having fun?' " he says. " No! It's hard work and it's tough, but it's important."
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Sat 7th Aug 2010
• [Jul 30] Amiti Sen* interviews Vince Cable: ' . . INDIA is disappointed with fresh visa restrictions imposed by the UK as it has always been seeking more liberal movement of workers and professionals. Is there any message?
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Sat 7th Aug 2010
• [Aug 05] William Green* writes: HERE is a revealing interview I did with Business Secretary Vince Cable yesterday ahead of him visiting the region today. The senior Lib Dem has been painted as uncomfortable with the coalition, but he told me that he intends to stay in the Cabinet for five years - the planned term of the Government.
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Fri 6th Aug 2010
• [Aug 06]: Richmond's new Conservative administration has served notice on the borough's voluntary sector organisations that they are next in line for cuts. All funded organisations have been told that their previously allocated funding for 2011/12 onwards, from the corporate grants budget, carers budget or departmental budgets are to be reviewed "against the backdrop of reduced local government funding".
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Thu 5th Aug 2010
• [Aug 04] Simon Hughes writes: Council tenancy agreements have not been discussed by the coalition, and any idea or proposal floated so far is nothing more than that - an idea or a proposal and not a policy. So the ideas put forward by David Cameron this week in no way represent the policy of the coalition and certainly do not represent the policy of Liberal Democrats.
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Tue 3rd Aug 2010
• [Jul 30]: THIS is the letter that Simon Hughes MP, Tom Brake MP and Sarah Ludford MEP handed to Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions at the Crown Prosecution Service on Wednesday 28th July 2010:
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Mon 2nd Aug 2010
• [Jul 30] Susan Kramer writes: ' . . IT'S amazing how you stop listening to the news programmes, and while I've had the occasional browse through the newspapers, I'm no longer glued to them. I currently have three books on the go, and I'm wearing a sundress for the first time in as long as I can remember, without having to wear a jacket over the top. I'm also wearing far more bling than I ever could - and, for the first time in a long while, I actually have a sun tan.
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Mon 2nd Aug 2010
• [Aug02] Vince Cable writes: ' . . MY first visit was 45 years ago as a student on an overland trek, and it left a deep and lasting impression. There was grotesque poverty and visible hunger but great human warmth, infectious energy and a sense of security and solidity amid the apparent anarchy. I have returned many times as traveller, son-in-law, economic writer, business representative and parliamentarian. My late wife Olympia had family in India and the subcontinent has always been a special place for me . . '
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Sat 31st Jul 2010
• [Jul 27] Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire,Labour): TO ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether he took advice from the Attorney-General on making reference to the legal status of the invasion of Iraq before doing so during Prime Minister's Questions on 21 July 2010; and if he will make a statement.
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Sat 31st Jul 2010
• [Jul 27] David Heath (Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, House of Commons; Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat): ' . . WE now come to a group that I have headed simply as "denial" . . who would simply not accept the mess that their Government-the Labour Government-had left. The key phrase came from the hon. Member for Bolton West who said that the choices that are being taken now are not the choices they would have made. Well, we would have loved to have known what choices they would have made, because they were committed to £40 billion-worth of cuts and 500,000 job losses in the public sector. Come on, let us hear what they were!"
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