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Government facing defeat in Lords over tax credits
Tim Farron instructs peers to back fatal motion, greatly increasing chances of government being defeated
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Tax Credits will be this Chancellor’s Poll Tax
Tim Farron has branded George Osborne's unfair tax credit changes the Chancellor's very own Poll Tax. As a debate takes place in Parliament on the changes that will penalise working families, Tim…
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PADDY ASHDOWN JOINS EUROPEAN MOVEMENT AS PRESIDENT
Paddy Ashdown becomes President of the European Movement, joining the fight to win the EU Referendum The European Movement is extremely honoured that Paddy Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal…
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Baroness Pinnock: Government must make childcare available outside of school hours
Liberal Democrat House of Lords Spokesperson for Children, Baroness Pinnock reflects on the passage of the Childcare Bill through the House of Lords this week. For parents with young children…
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Catherine Bearder MEP writes: Europe is about more than the economy, it’s about opportunity
At the official launch of the Stronger In Campaign on Monday it was great to see such a huge range of people, of all ages and from all walks of life, prepared to work together to secure Britain's…
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What the 2015 Sex and Power report has to say about the Liberal Democrats
The 2015 Sex and Power report published by the Counting Women In coalition came out this week. It looks in detail at the number of women candidates put forward by each party and the number of MPs…
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Tories’ “obsession with selective schooling is damaging the educational chances of children” – Pugh
The BBC reports: - England is to get its first "new" grammar school for five decades after ministers allowed a grammar school to build an "annexe" in another town. Weald of Kent school in Tonbridge…
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Wilson Doctrine: Carmichael says Lib Dems will demand protection for journalists, lawyers & parliamentarians from state snooping
Liberal Democrat politicians have reacted with alarm to yesterday's ruling on the Wilson Doctrine The Investigatory Powers Tribunal basically shrugged off Harold Wilson's declaration in 1966 that…
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Tom Brake on why Liberal Democrats opposed George Osborne’s Fiscal Charter
It's all quite simple, really - the Liberal Democrats, unlike Labour, were not going to fall into Osborne's trap. Here is Tom Brake's speech from last night's debate: The Liberal Democrats will not…
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Open Europe poses ten questions for the EU referendum Remain and Leave campaigns
We have now seen the launch of both the 'Remain' and 'Leave' campaigns (with two in the latter camp) ahead of the EU referendum. There are a number of tough questions that both sides will have to…
