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Jun 10, 2024 · The Liberal Democrats have launched their 2024 election manifesto, called For A Fair Deal. The document sets out the policies that the party plans to introduce should it win the election. Here...
Jul 15, 2020 · When someone asks you on the doorstep, the hustings or on TV to sum up in a sentence or two what the Lib Dems, uniquely, stand for – and why anyone should vote for us – what do you answer? We want to give everyone the best possible chances to live their lives as they wish, to be who they want to be and to make their own choices.
Jun 2, 2024 · This election—which for many voters is mainly about kicking the government—should see the Lib Dems benefit from tactical voting among Labour supporters in seats where they are the main...
The Lib Dems have promoted further environmental protections and opposed British military ventures like the Iraq War . The Liberal Democrats are historically strongest in northern Scotland, south-west London, South West England, and mid Wales.
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I teach my British history students that liberalism as a party platform dates from 1840sEngland, when a group of politicians proposed a set of ideas very different from their Tory and Whig colleagues. The Tories were the party of Crown and countryside, while the Whigs tended to favor merchant interests over aristocratic landowners. Neither party fi...
The trend of economic interventionism quickly caught on in the United States. In 1932, Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt defeated the more liberal Republican Herbert Hoover by promising a massive government stimulus package that would address the Depression’s wreckage: The New Deal. Broadly speaking, this expansion of government-...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is squarely liberal in the mode of the Clintons. He was a supporter of NAFTA and championed the market-based Affordable Care Act over universal health care. Other major contenders remain a bit of a mystery on where they stand on the liberal-left divide. Some observers thought Kamala Harris avoided tipping...
Why am I at the Liberal Democrat conference? Well, because although the Labour party is miles ahead in the opinion polls, Keir Starmer does have to gain 123 seats to win a majority of one....
Nov 20, 2019 · The Liberal Democrats have launched their 2019 election manifesto, with the slogan Stop Brexit Build A Brighter Future. It sets out the polices the party aims to introduce should it win the...
