Liberal Democrats
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Hester and Rose set for CBI conference...of things to come" at the CBI's annual conference on 23 November. Speakers at the event include Conservative Party leader David Cameron, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority,... In this article: Stephen Hester, Stuart Rose, Financial Services Authority, Conservative Party, Liberal Democrat, Marks & Spencer, Adair Turner, David Cameron, and International Monetary Fund |
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BBC News | 3 days ago
Party leaders detail growth plans
...the election. Also addressing the congress earlier, the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, emphasised the need for more competition in the banking sector as well as the importance of splitting investment and retail banks. Meanwhile, the...
In this article: UK, David Cameron, Recession, Gordon Brown, Lib Dem, Unemployment, Carbon, and International Monetary Fund
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Telegraph.co.uk - Business | October 10, 2008
Iceland crisis won't hurt councils' frontline services predicts LGA
...Transport for London has GBP40 million invested. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called for another round of co-ordinated worldwide interest cuts and action by the IMF to help Iceland. "The immediate short-term need is for the G7 and...
In this article: Iceland, IMF, G7, Recession, Tax, Credit crunch, Transport for London, and BBC Radio 4
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scotsman.com - Latest Scottish News | April 23, 2009
Budget 'mess' will cost jobs - SNP
...that Labour has left itself with a black hole of AGBP23 billion." The Liberal Democrats' Alistair Carmichael described the debt figures as "incredibly alarming". "This Budget is a short term fix designed to get the Labour party through...
In this article: Labour Party, Scotland, Tax, Jim Murphy, John Swinney, International Monetary Fund, UK, and Recession
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Independent.co.uk - UK | January 28, 2009
Economic outlook just gets worse and worse
...world?" Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, claimed the IMF report exposed Mr Brown's "lie" that Britain is well placed to deal with the recession, because it faces a bigger slowdown than Europe and the US. "The Prime...
In this article: International Monetary Fund, Recession, Britain, Gordon Brown, Economics, Tax, Unemployment, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Davos
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BBC News | January 02, 2009
VAT cut has failed, says Cameron
...Fund of the decision to cut VAT from 17.5% to 15% until the end of 2009. The Liberal Democrats tried to get it overturned in a Commons debate in December. Mr Cable said it was "seriously defective" as a way of getting money into the...
In this article: David Cameron, Recession, Vince Cable, Gordon Brown, Ideology, Capitalism, Tax, Credit crunch, and Tories
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The Moscow Times | April 16, 2009
News in Brief
...reach 10 million. The government may also have to seek help from the International Monetary Fund "in the near future," he said told Liberal Democrat politicians in the European Parliament in a speech delivered in English. (Reuters)
In this article: The Moscow Times, Vedomosti, Mikhail Kasyanov, Unemployment, Inflation, Radio Television Hong Kong, Liberal Democrat, Reuters, International Monetary Fund, and World Health Organization
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Telegraph.co.uk Telegraph newspaper online | April 23, 2009
Budget 2009: Government's economic recovery predictions 'utter fantasy'
...the problem that he has to tackle." Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said that the "lamentable failure" of the Government to get its forecasts right showed it was living in a "fantasy world". The Chancellor's predictions also met...
In this article: International Monetary Fund, BBC Radio 4, Vince Cable, and Inflation
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BBC News | April 21, 2009
Meltdown 'will cost '$4 trillion'
And Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vince Cable said the massive cost from the failure of the banking system represented "a terrible failure on the part of the international banks and mortgage lenders and their regulators". Rising...
In this article: International Monetary Fund, Recession, Credit crunch, Balance sheet, Global recession, Liberal Democrat, George Osborne, and Federal Reserve
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scotsman.com - Politics | April 02, 2009
G20 leaders agree to trillion-dollar rescue
...will be sold, with the proceeds being spent on poor nations. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said: "Gordon Brown has clearly passed the test as a host to the world. He must now prove he can turn this deal into real help for...
In this article: International Monetary Fund, Barack Obama, Recession, European Union, Japan, UK, Peter Mandelson, Bank of England, and United States
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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.
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