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Nick Clegg speech to Liberal Democrat Spring Conference

Sun 14th Mar 2010

Shall I tell you the one phrase that bothers me more than any other? It’s this.

Liberal Democrats back green stimulus package

Sun 14th Mar 2010

The plans will play a vital part in a fair recovery that locks in investment and ensures a path of low-carbon growth.

Liberal Democrats pass plans to clean up politics

Sun 14th Mar 2010

The proposals include:

Chris Huhne speech to Liberal Democrat Conference

Sun 14th Mar 2010

The full text of the speech is below:

Liberal Democrats back fairer taxes

Sat 13th Mar 2010

These plans would see the average person’s income tax bill cut by £700. Pensioners would be £100 better off and 3.6m people would no longer have to pay any income tax at all.

Sarah Teather speech to Liberal Democrat Spring Conference

Sat 13th Mar 2010

The full text of the speech is below:

Nick Clegg's Conference Leader's Q & A

Sat 13th Mar 2010

We need a new UN body to break the climate deadlock says Hughes

Sat 13th Mar 2010

The authority would sit in permanent session and bring coherence to efforts to reach a binding and enforceable agreement on emissions cuts.

Vince Cable speech to Liberal Democrat Spring Conference

Sat 13th Mar 2010

In his speech, Vince Cable said that the Liberal Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility and fairer taxes.

Liberal Democrats call for fair start for children

Sat 13th Mar 2010

The proposals include: An extra £2.5bn investment in schools to reduce class sizes, improve discipline and provide more one-to-one tuition to help struggling pupils, paid as a pupil premium to schools for each of the poorest 1m children they teach

Liberal Democrats call for end to child detention

Sat 13th Mar 2010

Commenting, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said:

Danny Alexander gives speech to Spring Conference

Sat 13th Mar 2010

The full text of the speech is below:

Diana welcomes fellow Yorkshire Euro MP to the Liberal Democrats

Sat 13th Mar 2010

Diana Wallis, the Liberal Democrat MEP for Yorkshire & the Humber since 1999, has welcomed the news that her parliamentary colleague and ex-Tory MEP, Edward McMillan-Scott, has joined the Liberal Democrats.

Vince Cable speech to Liberal Democrat Spring Conference

Sat 13th Mar 2010

In his speech, Vince Cable will say that the Liberal Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility and fairer taxes.

This will be the biggest fight of our political lives says Clegg

Fri 12th Mar 2010

Extracts from the speech are below:

Longest serving Tory in Europe joins the Liberal Democrats

Fri 12th Mar 2010

Edward McMillan-Scott, the Conservative’s most senior MEP, has joined the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal Democrats reveal election slogan

Fri 12th Mar 2010

The slogan is being used at the party’s Spring Conference in Birmingham this weekend.

EU and the Arctic debate

Fri 12th Mar 2010

Speaking in the plenary debate on EU policy in the Arctic in the European Parliament on Wednesday Diana Wallis, the Vice President responsible for Arctic matters, said that 'an inner core of states in the Arctic could seriously undermine a very precious cooperation in the region'. She also stated the importance of the Northern Dimension as a basis for multilateral cooperation in the Arctic.

LD2010 Issue Four: Spring Conference comes to Birmingham

Fri 12th Mar 2010

Spring Conference 2010: Birmingham