Exciting news live from the LDV Broom Cupboard in Birmingham’s ICC. News reaches us that Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott has defected to the Liberal Democrats and will be joining us here at party conference. The MEP said today: “I have been around the higher circles of the Conservative party for long enough to fear that on Europe
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 12th Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Birmingham Post reports on the Liberal Democrats and their targetting of three parliamentary seats in Birmingham: Liberal Democrats are gunning for Home Office Minister Liam Byrne after party leader Nick Clegg named his Birmingham seat as a key target in the West Midlands. Mr Clegg has ordered his party to divert resources away from Conservative-held constituencies and focus on 50
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LiberalBurblings on 12th Aug 2008 (via paulwalter.blogspot.com)
A long-serving Conservative MEP, expelled in a row over the party's new allies in Europe, has joined the Liberal Democrats.
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BBCPolitics on 12th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Live coverage from the 2011 Liberal Democrats Party Conference, featuring party leaders Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, which takes place in Birmingham from September 17-21.
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Telegraph on 17th Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
The Conservatives are meeting whilst in power for their party conference in Birmingham for the first time in 13 years and cuts will be top of the agenda. Watch all the speeches, debates and Q&A here live from Birmingham from 9:30am.
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Telegraph on 4th Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
There’s no escaping history in our party, and current debates of nationalism, unionism and secession should prompt Liberal Democrats to delve back into the Gladstonian past. The Liberal Party split over the Union. Gladstone favoured Home Rule for Ireland, Liberal Unionists didn’t, and ultimately joined the Conservative Party. This cemented the Conservative Party as the
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 13th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
Live coverage from the 2011 Liberal Democrats Party Conference, featuring party leaders Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, in Birmingham from September 17-21.
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Telegraph on 21st Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Live coverage from the 2011 Liberal Democrats Party Conference, featuring party leaders Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, in Birmingham from September 17-21.
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Telegraph on 20th Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Live coverage from the 2011 Liberal Democrats Party Conference, featuring party leaders Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, in Birmingham from September 17-21.
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Telegraph on 19th Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Live coverage from the 2011 Liberal Democrats Party Conference, featuring party leaders Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, in Birmingham from September 17-21.
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Telegraph on 19th Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Figures released by the Electoral Commission this week reveal that while the Conservative Party outspent all the other parties put together in General Election 2010, it was the Liberal Democrats who got the best value for money. The Liberal Democrats spent 70p for each vote gained; the Labour Party, 93p and the Conservatives, £1.54. From
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 3rd Dec 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
