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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
- The Speech - 23/01/2013So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.)...
Liberal Democrats Archive
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The Speech
Posted on 23/01/2013 | No CommentsSo we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.) David Cameron wants to renegotiate the terms of British membership of the EU and put... -
Party views of a referendum on Europe
Posted on 16/10/2012 | 2 CommentsThe prospect of a referendum on British membership of the EU continues to hang over British politics. (Federal Union has warned of the reasons why such a referendum might not be as neat and democratic as it sounds here, but there remain plenty of people... -
The House of Lords is a mess
Posted on 01/05/2012 | 2 CommentsThe House of Lords is a mess. It brings together in one place party political nominees (often former MPs), acknowledged experts on particular issues, descendants of drinking buddies of long-deceased monarchs, and a smattering of Anglican bishops, to sit in judgement on legislation. We are... -
The coalition government and the European Union – who, whom?
Posted on 13/09/2011 | 2 CommentsThe Federal Union committee, at its meeting on 12 September, discussed the record of the coalition government on Europe and in particular the influence of the Liberal Democrats. The outcome of the general election in 2010, with the Conservatives the largest party but 20 seats... -
The delusion of national elections
Posted on 13/05/2011 | No CommentsThe fallout from last week’s referendum defeat for the Alternative Vote continues to settle, with comments from prominent Yes campaigners such as Jessica Asato and Peter Facey, as well as reports from the Dark Side (Tim Montgomerie and Dylan Sharpe), but aside from evaluating the... -
Coalition tensions
Posted on 23/09/2010 | 1 CommentThe Liberal Democrats at their conference in Liverpool this week were discussing the coalition government. A coalition is necessarily a compromise between different and even conflicting interests, and resolving those conflicts satisfactorily will be an important factor in keeping the coalition together. But it remains... -
What Liberal Democrats can fight for in the coalition government
Posted on 03/09/2010 | 1 CommentBy Richard Laming Entry into the coalition government after the general election in May presents the Liberal Democrats with a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, they share and exercise political power, with five seats in the cabinet – which by most reckoning is the... -
How to both support and oppose the euro at the same time
Posted on 09/05/2010 | 1 CommentOne of the things that did for the Liberal Democrats in the general election campaign was their inability to explain their position on the euro. They were widely and generally accused of proposing that Britain should join the euro, at the same time that the... -
Britain, Europe and the general election
Posted on 14/04/2010 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Today’s conference has been looking at the Europe policies of the different political parties. I will speak about the Liberal Democrats’ policies in a moment but I want to preface my remarks with a comment about why we are interested in the... -
Where next for the constitution?
Posted on 18/09/2006 | No CommentsAn interesting discussion yesterday between Andrew Duff and Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat spokespeople on constitutional affairs in the European Parliament and foreign affairs in the House of Commons, respectively. (It was at a fringe meeting at the Lib Dem conference.) The subject was what to...
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