Liberal Reform Events Yesterday Yesterday we had our last two fringe events. First up was ‘Holding their feet to the fire: Civil Liberties under the Coalition’, with: Shami Chakrabati, Director of Liberty John Kampfner, author and activist Sir Menzies Campbell MP This meeting was particularly popular, and Lib Dem Voice’s Stephen Read more…
Liberal Reform Events Today Today we had the first of our fringe events: ‘What does a Liberal tax system look like?’, with: Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Ben Page, CEO of Ipsos Mori David Laws MP Stephen Williams MP. This very topical meeting was very well attended. Read more…
Saturday 22nd September Since launching in February, we’ve had hundreds of members join, and we’re very happy to be so involved in our first Autumn Conference as an organisation, with a great lineup of fringe events and policy proposals. Interesting Motions Today For those voting members among you in Brighton Read more…
Ahead of Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference this weekend, Liberal Reform have put together a briefing document. It summarises both our view on various policy motions being put to the conference, and the many exciting events we are hosting. Download the briefing here.
“I need to say this – you shouldn’t trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of the public good.” Nick Clegg This week, Read more…
Thank you to everyone who came to one of our Liberal Reform events in Gateshead and signed up there.It was great to see such a big crowd, including parliamentarians and many from the leadership programme. For those of you who didn’t make it this time, don’t worry, we’re hoping we’ll Read more…
We were grateful to see many Lib Dem bloggers talking about the launch of Liberal Reform, with some quickly becoming members: We launched with a piece by Zadok Day on Lib Dem Voice, provoking a lot of comment. Nick Thornsby and Charlotte Henry also blogged to explain their role in Read more…
Liberal Reform is a new membership group within the Liberal Democrats, committed to fostering debate and variety in the Lib Dems, promoting an all-round Liberal ideology in Lib Dem policy, including the economic liberalism that the founding members feel is lacking a voice in the grassroots of party. 35% of Read more…