Compass want Lib Dems at its conference
As a visitor to LibDemVoice you may or may not be aware of the work of Compass – the influential pressure group that campaigns for a more democratic, equal and sustainable world. Compass is about...
View ArticleReinventing the State reprinted
I’m very pleased to say that Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century has been reprinted with the first print run having sold out. The editors (myself, Duncan Brack and David...
View ArticleLibLink: Richard Grayson – Lib Dems must dare to be different over prisoners’...
Over at The Guardian, Richard Grayson, a Lib Dem parliamentary candidate and former director of policy for the party, argues that the Council of Europe ruling against the UK ban on prisoners voting...
View ArticleThe ideological background to coalition
Richard Grayson (former head of policy for the party and one of the leading lights behind the Social Liberal Forum) has written a thoughtful pamphlet for Compass about the different strains of thought...
View ArticleMore on Richard Grayson, Liberal Democrats and ideology
A footnote to my piece earlier this week about Richard Grayson’s pamphlet. In it I commented: What I think Richard under-plays is the way the party’s attitude towards the state has changed not in...
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The Liberal Democrat challenges for 2011: defining and explaining economic...
This is the final piece in a series of posts on the main Liberal Democrat challenges for 2011. You can find all the posts in the series here. Having started this series with the economy and then moving...
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The political thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945: book...
Kevin Hickson’s volume, The political thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945, may be a short volume from an academic publisher with an academic book price tag to boot (look out for...
View ArticleEight former Liberal Democrat candidates take part in Labour’s policy-making...
On Friday former Liberal Democrat policy director and Parliamentary candidate Richard Grayson announced more details of his response to Ed Miliband’s invitation to encourage Lib Dems to take part in...
View ArticleLibLink: Richard Grayson – NHS reforms: Listen to your party, Nick, or the...
Writing on Comment Is Free on Sunday, Professor Richard Grayson warns Liberal Democrats in government against ignoring the calls of party members to re-think elements of the planned NHS changes. Here’s...
View Article10 Lib Dems call for emergency recovery programme
From today’s Guardian: We write to express broad support for the Compass Plan B proposals reported in the Observer (30 October). We are Liberal Democrat members who have campaigned hard for decades in...
View ArticleLib Dem members launch group opposed to the coalition
The Guadian reports: The first Liberal Democrat group openly opposed to the coalition is to be launched at the party’s spring conference in Gateshead next month with a warning that the coalition has...
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Richard Grayson resigns from the party
Or, as he explains in his lengthy article on Compass, Richard Grayson’s membership has lapsed and he is not renewing. Richard was the party’s Director of Policy prior to 2004, Vice Chair of the Federal...
View ArticleI’m sorry to see Richard Grayson resign, but I’m sticking with the party of...
I was sorry to see Richard Grayson has resigned from the Lib Dems. We’ve met only once. It was at the 2010 Brighton party conference when we were interviewed together for Radio 4’s The Westminster...
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