Well done to Nick Clegg for becoming the first major party leader to take on Policy Exchange over its unscrupulous approach to Islam. (hat-tip Sunny Hundal) In a statement carried by the PoliticsHome website on Friday, Clegg criticised the think-tank over for a privately circulated briefing against the Sunday's Global Peace and Unity event in London. The Policy Exchange briefing I have seen seeks ...

LDV readers may recall that last October, we ran a piece highlighting Nick Clegg’s attack on think-tank Policy exchange for circulating a a dossier questioning apparent extremist background of several of the events speakers at a forthcoming Global Peace and Unity event in London. Nick, who spoke at the event, accused the Policy Exchange’s director

From Politics Home: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has attacked thinktank Policy Exchange over its call to boycott the upcoming Global Peace and Unity event in London. The thinktank had circulated a dossier questioning apparent extremist background of several of the events speakers. However Mr Clegg, who is due to speak at the event accused the thinktank’s

Anthony Barnett (London, OK):  Over on The Green Ribbon, Tom Griffin has picked up a great story. Here is how it begins: Well done to Nick Clegg for becoming the first major party leader to take on Policy Exchange over its unscrupulous approach to Islam. (hat-tip Sunny Hundal) In a statement carried by the PoliticsHome website on Friday, Clegg criticised the think-tank over for a privately ci...

Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has challenged the think-tank Policy Exchange over its briefing against a family event aimed at promoting harmony and dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. A briefing note circulated by Policy Exchange links speakers at the Global Peace and Unity 2008 event on Sunday to Islamic extremism. It includes ‘evidence' quoted from the Society for Amer...

The LibDems have sent out this press release: Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has challenged the think-tank Policy Exchange over its briefing against a family event aimed at promoting harmony and dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. A briefing note circulated by Policy Exchange links speakers at the Global Peace and Unity 2008 event on Sunday to Islamic

This evening I have been at a gala fundraising dinner for Policy Exchange at Vinopolis near London Bridge. Boris Johnson was the guest speaker and he put in a bravura performance - just the right mix of Borisisms and political meat. Nicholas Boles can be justifiably proud of what he created all the way back in 2001. A lot of people along the way have helped make Policy Exchange the biggest and arg...

Nice to see Iain Dale being so open about the influence of Policy Exchange for a change; most days he's busy denying their influence. On one notable occasion when Iain Dale was a Trustee of Policy Exchange and denying their...

The mood of the country is changing and so are the Lib Dems. At a speech to the Policy Exchange think tank on Tuesday, Nick Clegg set out the case for lower taxes. ( years, the Lib Dems have (quite rightly) made the case for getting the state off our backs on personal freedom and civil liberty issues. Now there are signs that Clegg is rediscovering the traditional values of economic liberalism.Des...

Following the link from the piece written in the Local Government section by Policy Exchange's Ben Caldecott about litter this morning, I was taken to the Policy Exchange website, and notice that it has gone through something of a redesign....