With over 4,000 attendees and renewed interest from the media and external exhibitors, it felt great to be a Liberal Democrat in Brighton last weekend. We were particularly pleased to see our amendment to the Sunday Trading motion pass, setting out our support for the liberalisation of the law in Read more…
Below you will find Liberal Reform’s formal response to the Homes and Planning Consultation, submitted to the Federal Policy Committee for consideration on 17 March 2022. The FPC paper we are responding to be can found here: https://www.libdems.org.uk/s22-homes-planning-paper You can also download a copy our response here:
At 19:05 on Saturday 18th of September, Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference will be debating Liberal Reform’s motion “Building Communities”. This motion aims to commit the Liberal Democrats to combating the housing crisis in a fair, inclusive way, making sure that the right amount of houses are built in the right Read more…
Welcome to Liberal Reform’s Briefing for the 2021 Liberal Democrat Spring Conference. Below you will find our views on all the motions up for debate this weekend, plus information on our fringe event on Sunday, and how you can get involved with Liberal Reform. You can download the briefing here.
There has been much discussion about Matthew Parris’ Spectator article about the state of the Party. A lot of it rings very true. The broad thrust of the argument is that the Lib Dems have abandoned the tough issues of the day, instead preferring to portray an attitude that could Read more…
For the supposed home of market economics, the Conservative party has shown very little knowledge of it during its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Almost every aspect of the Government’s efforts to “control the virus” that have ignored competitive market forces (i.e. most of them) have failed. On both track Read more…
Following the close of nominations, we are now in a position to announce the Liberal Reform board for the 2021-22 term. New to the board this time are Daniel Duggan, Emily Tester, Oliver Jones-Lyons and Julia Wright. Julia is a long time supporter of LR and will be known to Read more…
Last night Liberal Reform hosted a Question and Answer session with Ed Davey and Layla Moran, the two Lib Dem MPs battling it out to become the next leader of the Party. You can watch the Q&A back in its entirety at the bottom of this page. The evening was Read more…
Liberal Democrat leaders do not have much say in setting Party policy, but they have far more in setting the Party’s vision, strategy and priorities. With this in mind, and with the Liberal Democrat leadership election fast approaching, Liberal Reform have set out the themes we believe any successful Liberal Read more…