…can be found on Comment is Free: These questions, for the Lib Dems at least, are important. The party president is not a figurehead but an executive role. I happen to think that the more focused Lembit who ran a highly organised campaign four years ago would have done a much better job than Simon Hughes.
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QuaequamBlog on 26th Sep 2008 (via theliberati.net)
The Lib Dems say they have "no plans" to try to amend the coalition's Budget - despite a warning by Simon Hughes.
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BBCPolitics on 25th Jun 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
SIMON Hughes was last night unveiled as the new deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats.
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Scotsman on 9th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Over at the New Statesman, Simon Hughes, the Lib Dems’ shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change, mounts a passionate defence of the party’s call for an independent inquiry into nuclear power – a call which led pro-nuclear environmental campaigner Mark Lynas to far-fetchedly claim the lights could go out in the event
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 7th Apr 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Lib Dem Voice yesterday covered the video Simon Hughes made to highlight the Lib Dems’ opposition day motion on climate change, and the 10:10 campaign’s call for a commitment to a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010. The Lib Dems’ motion was straightforward: That this House believes that it is vital that the
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 22nd Oct 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Today’s Observer carries an interview with Simon Hughes: At a time when the Tory right is pressing David Cameron ever harder to follow its agenda and trample on the Lib Dems, Hughes is acting as his party’s, and the coalition’s, left-wing brake. “I think the useful role I can play is to be a guardian
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 18th Sep 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Liberal Democrats will no longer "be ignored", having formed a coalition with the Conservatives, deputy leader Simon Hughes says.
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BBCPolitics on 21st Sep 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
The BBC reports: A senior Lib Dem who abstained from the vote on tuition fees has been appointed by the government to help encourage poorer teenagers to go to university. Simon Hughes was among Lib Dems to raise concerns about a hike in the cap on university tuition fees in England. David Cameron and Nick
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 29th Dec 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
As expected Simon Hughes, has won the race to be Lib Dem deputy leader, congratulations. Both candidates pledged to assert the party’s independence within the context of supporting the coalition. Hughes intends to appoint Lib Dem spokesmen for all government departments to improve accountability in parliament. A renowned left-winger, Hughes’s inclination must run contrary to the Conser...
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Spectator on 9th Jun 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Recently, Simon Hughes spoke to this issue in a video interview, then widely reported - e.g. by gay media outlet Pink News - that Hughes had indicated that gay marriage will happen in this parliament. However, that is a rather optimistic assessment of what Hughes actually said.
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LiberalConspiracy on 22nd Jul 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Student Lib Dems campaigning for tuition fees to be scrapped in 2003, alongside deputy leader of the Lib Dems, Simon Hughes MP.
