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…
Our country is in the grip of a cost of living crisis. While our Prime Minister is more occupied with trying to keep his own job than with leading our country, millions of families in our country are struggling to make ends meet. Energy bills are rising, the tax burden 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:
Hello all, welcome to another co-chair update! Firstly, a brief update on where I’m at and where Liberal Reform is at the moment: 2021 was a great year for us, and I was especially proud of how the Building Communities campaign went. But running it took a lot out of Read more…
I am a liberal. I didn’t actually realise it when I joined the party in 2017, days after that year’s general election. At the time I simply saw the Liberal Democrats as the only reasonable political choice that existed; but as I have developed within the party, I’ve come to Read more…
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…
At 7:00pm on the 10th of June 2021, our Building Communities working group met via Zoom. Our group consists of housing experts from across the Liberal Democrats, local councillors, as well as some enthusiastic Liberal Reform members. The group is a diverse mix of people from many localities and backgrounds Read more…
There is a housing crisis in our country. The total level of new house building needed in the UK to meet demand is 380,000 per year, but we’re currently only building just over half of this! Furthermore, up to 17% of UK households are living in overcrowded conditions, and Black, 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.
I used to work at a University Law Clinic. One day two of us were deployed to assist with the defence of a group of Extinction Rebellion activists who had been arrested by the Police. During evidence, there was a fascinating video played, where the police warned protesters that they Read more…
It is important for Liberal Democrats to remember that Austerity is not just made up of public spending cuts, but also tax rises. That’s why Liberal Reform are disappointed to hear that the Liberal Democrats will be supporting Rishi Sunak’s move to raise corporation tax. It is deeply concerning to Read more…
Dear members and supporters, I officially became co-chair of LR in January and since then I’ve been pretty busy, so I thought it was about time to update you on a few of the things I’ve been getting up to! Firstly some housekeeping. The new board structure that was discussed Read more…
This is not a defence of Begum’s actions, joining a terrorist organisation has ramifications. But those ramifications should lie with her country, which must take partial responsibility for state failure in allowing the radicalisation of a 15-year-old child. It is however, an explainer of the state failures, abuse of power Read more…
Book: The Future of Social Democracy: Essays to Mark the 40th Anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration. Edited by Colin McDougall, George Kendall and Wendy Chamberlain. Available here. To mark the fortieth anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration a series of essays have been published by the Social Democrat Group in order Read more…
Welcome to the first of what will soon be regular updates directly from your co-chair team! Once our term properly starts in January I will try and get one of these out quarterly as a minimum, to ensure that our members are kept up to date with everything we’re doing Read more…
As we approach the final few days and weeks of 2020, our time in the Brexit transition period is coming to an end. Being a fully signed-up EU member has gone, and we now need to look to what our future is outside the European family. There is now a 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…