Today’s Telegraph reports that Lib Dem peer Lord (Matthew) Oakeshott has called for all documents relating to Tory donor Lord (Michael) Ashcroft’s peerage to be made public to establish whether the Queen conferred the honour under false pretences: Lord Oakeshott, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, wrote to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, urging him to publish all
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 7th Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has just emailed all Lib Dem supporters to offer his take on yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, and the many ways in which it includes Liberal Democrat priorities at its heart: Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech was unlike any we have seen for years. It was not simply another list of bills from a government
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 26th May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
News reaches us via Conservative Home and the Telegraph that Norsheen Bhatti, the Liberal Democrat PPC for Chelsea and Fulham, has defected to David Cameron’s party. It is odd that Tory Chairman (and Lib Dem Voice favourite) Eric Pickles suggested to The Telegraph that the environment was one area where his party shares Liberal Democrat values.
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 25th Apr 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove’s suggestion that a new royal yacht should be “a gift from the nation to her majesty” on the occasion of her diamond jubilee earned diplomatically short shrift from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg today:
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Queen will today present the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government's legislative agenda at the state opening of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster.
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Telegraph on 25th May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
It is worth spending a moment reflecting on just how remarkable today’s Queen’s Speech is from a Liberal Democrat perspective. We have become conditioned to believe that the policies we develop will never be implemented. A good intellectual exercise but nothing more. Yet here we have a programme for government of which we can be
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 25th May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
The BBC website gives us the low-down on the various ins and outs of the minor shadow cabinet reshuffle and a new entrant to the Lib Dem presidential race: Lembit Opik is standing down as Liberal Democrat housing spokesman to concentrate on his campaign to succeed Simon Hughes as the party’s president. A Lib Dem spokesman
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 24th Sep 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Queen will be popping in to Parliament tomorrow for the annual Dimblemania State Opening. Word reaches us via ye olde Twitter that Nick Clegg has given his views on what her Maj should be revealing. Watch him here: Related posts:Vince not pleased with Queen rebuff Vince is not chuffed with the handling he got from...Some serious media coverage of Nick’s speech Lib Dem Voice has devoted s...
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 2nd Dec 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Ah, opinion polls. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you just can’t ignore ‘em. Today’s Telegraph reports a typically anti-Lib Dem story, Voters fail to recognise ‘invisible’ Lib Dem ministers. It claims to show that “Liberal Democrat cabinet ministers are far less likely to be recognised by ordinary voters than their Conservative counterparts”. However, t...
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 8th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)