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Many of us on the left feel jaded by the broken promises of New Labour and betrayed by university fees, private finance initiatives in healthcare and the Iraq War. Yet we are not ready to put our faith in David Cameron who is most politely described as [...]

Filed under: libdems on January 12th, 2010 | No Comments »

What do Nick Clegg and I have in common? Yes, that’s right, we’ve both used the bottom left-hand corner of the Varsity Comment page to offload a few political bugbears. Look in the online Friday 23rd November issue on page 10 and you’ll see it. Someone ought to, if only to make poor Mr Calamity [...]

Filed under: jonathanbirch, libdems, ukpolitics on December 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

David Howarth’s address to Clare Politics provoked an entertaining and animated Q&A session covering the future leadership of the Liberal Democrats and the perennial issue of electability.
As a brief preamble to the first question David characterized the Conservative Party as broadly a party of manoeuvre rather than ideological substance, and the Lib Dem party [...]

Filed under: chrishuhne, davidhowarth, libdems, nickclegg, video on November 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments »