Last week saw Nick Clegg stand in for the PM at Prime Minister’s Question Time – the first Liberal to answer questions at PMQs since Lloyd George in 1922.
In it he was able to announce the closure of the family unit of Yarl’s Wood immigration centre
Yesterday Nick Clegg announced that there will be a referendum on electoral reform in May 2011. Our current voting system is unfair, the Liberal Democrats, for example, received a quarter of the vote nationally in this year’s General Election yet won less than 10% of parliamentary seats.
Yesterday (Sunday 16 May) there was a Liberal Democrat Special Conference in Birmingham to discuss the coalition with the Conservatives.
It’s been an interesting and unusual experience for us all after the election. In Britain we are not used to coalitions and the negotiations that follow an election result such as we have just witnessed. Dawn Barnes gives her point of view.
Following the hustings event in Witney last night and bumping into people in the town centre, candidate, Dawn Barnes has realised that it’s not clear that she intends to move to West Oxfordshire if elected.
West Oxfordshire usually has many more hustings than the two it has had this election. This time there was one in Woodstock, without either the Labour or Conservative candidates,
The Liberal Democrats launched its rural manifesto, promising a different and fair future for rural communities. With much of West Oxfordshire comprising smaller rural villages, farms and market towns the manifesto offers much to local people.
Both party leader, Nick Clegg, and local candidate, Dawn Barnes, are determined to find ways to engage with disillusioned voters. Nick Clegg was a great supporter of the live TV debates, in which he emerged as the ‘winner’
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