Liberal Democrats
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Consorting with conmen...that he was a trustworthy figure, he gave GBP2.4m to the Liberal Democrats, one of the largest donations ever made. In return, the Lib Dems gave him respectability. As the prosecution said, when it arraigned Brown in his absence... In this article: Michael Brown, Liberal Democrats, Gordon Brown, South Sea Company, Democracy, Brute fact, and Ideology |
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Wales Online | 1 day ago
Border Agency won't work with Assembly Government
...Minister Phil Woolas said the situation arose from the fact that immigration is a reserved matter for UK Ministers, and dismissed Lib Dem claims that "semantics" were undermining the immigration system. Earlier this year the National Audit...
In this article: UK Border Agency
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 1 day ago
Triple blow for Tories in council by-elections
...over Labour. A calculation based on five wards fought both times by all three major parties gives a line-up of C 36.4 per cent, Lib Dem 27.5 per cent, Lab 26.1 per cent. Liberal Democrat Edith Longden gained at Blackbrook, High Peak...
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Times Online | 2 days ago
SNP government faces defeat over minimum pricing for alcohol
...wave of hostility from the drinks industry, including the Scotch Whisky Association - and the retail sector. Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems also raised concerns that the measure, contained in the Alcohol Bill, was illegal under...
In this article: Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland, Nationalist, The Times, British Medical Association, and Faculty of Public Health
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scotsman.com - Latest Scottish News | 2 days ago
Labour reject alcohol-pricing Bill
...flawed". The party said it would set up its own commission to study alcohol pricing. The Liberal Democrats and the Tories have already said they opposed the proposals for minimum pricing. If passed, the SNP proposals would give...
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 3 days ago
Iraq: The inquiry cover-up that will keep us in the dark
...their work, saying that Sir John had been "given the freedom to conduct an inquiry in the way he wants". The Liberal Democrats said they would keep up the pressure on Mr Brown to tear up the agreement to allow more documents to be disclosed.
In this article: Iraq, Whitehall, Gordon Brown, Iraq War, and Freedom of Information Act
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 3 days ago
David Cameron 'not bound' by Scottish Parliament power shift
...borrowing powers would not be a priority in his first term in office, given the parlous state of the public finances. But the Liberal Democrats want the Calman recommendations implemented straightaway, and accused the other two parties of...
In this article: David Cameron, Jim Murphy, Scotland, and Labour
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Daily Mail | 6 days ago
We'll give the Tories a majority, says Clegg: Lib Dem leader pledges to avert election deadlock
...party with the second highest number of seats. Mr Clegg's intervention is a heavy blow to Gordon Brown, who has been working to entice the Lib Dems by pledging a referendum on reforming the voting system to allow proportional...
In this article: Nick Clegg, Tories, David Cameron, Labour, Gordon Brown, Eric Pickles, Andrew Marr, and Edward Heath
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Telegraph.co.uk - Politics | 6 days ago
Liberal Democrats offer Cameron hung parliament deal
...it "an inevitable fact" that the party that has the strongest mandate should be allowed to try and govern. It had been speculated that the Lib Dems to look to do a deal with Labour if they held the balance of power. A new poll will have...
In this article: David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Labour, Gordon Brown, Democracy, Ken Clarke, British Airways, and Britain
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Times Online | November 19, 2009
'Fat cats' in public sector should share pain of recession says Lib Dem leader
Navigation - link to other main sections from here 'Fat cats' in public sector should share pain of recession says Lib Dem leader The burgeoning cost of Scotland's public bodies to the taxpayer was laid bare yesterday with the...
In this article: Lib Dem, Recession, Alex Salmond, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Water, Scotland, Glasgow Caledonian University, and University of Edinburgh
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The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Liberals, are a centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had been in alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP. The party's leader is Nick Clegg.
The Lib Dems are the third-largest party in the UK Parliament, behind Labour and the Conservatives. There are 63 Lib Dem Members of Parliament (MPs) – 62 were elected at the 2005 general election, and one in the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, 2006. The Scottish Liberal Democrats formed a coalition Scottish Executive with Labour in the first two sessions of the Scottish Parliament, and the Welsh party were in a coalition with Labour in the National Assembly for Wales from 2001 to 2003.
Promoting social liberalism, Lib Dems seek to minimise state intervention in personal affairs: they oppose what they call the 'nanny state'. Their president's book of office is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which defined the harm principle of law. While objecting to state limitations of individual rights, they favour a welfare state that provides for the necessities and amenities of life.
- Name:
- Liberal Democrats
- Headquarters:
- London, SW1P 3NB
- Colors:
- Gold
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