Baroness Shirley Williams will be speaking at a special Fabian Society event on 10 March to answer the question “How liberal is Labour?” in conversation with Newsnight’s Michael Crick. Tickets are free for Fabian Society members and £10 for non-members.…
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Shirley Williams: How Liberal is Labour? (Fabian Society)
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Steve Webb this Wednesday
Steve Webb MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary (and Chair of the Social Liberal Forum’s Advisory Board), will be leading a policy discussion at Portcullis House, Westminster, on Wednesday 25 February. To give people some food for…
Expanding home delivery
The Ideas Factory is a chance for you to pitch your own idea of what should be in the next Liberal Democrat manifesto. The proposal here is not the policy of the Social Liberal Forum. We will however be passing…
Communicating Social Liberalism
By Steve Webb and Jo Holland This article was originally published in Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century. We are grateful to Steve and Jo for allowing us to reproduce this article. Liberal Democrats are good at…
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In defence of broad church politics
There has been a bit of a debate waging over the past week about “classical (or economic) liberals versus social liberals,” partly due to the launch of the Social Liberal Forum and exacerbated by a recent editorial in Liberator Magazine.…
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Give council tenants the right to move
The Ideas Factory is a chance for you to pitch your own idea of what should be in the next Liberal Democrat manifesto. The proposal here is not the policy of the Social Liberal Forum. We will however be passing…
Ratification of Appointments
The Ideas Factory is a chance for you to pitch your own idea of what should be in the next Liberal Democrat manifesto. The proposal here is not the policy of the Social Liberal Forum. We will however be passing…
The Ideas Factory
Got an idea you think should be in the Lib Dem manifesto? We want to hear it! As part of the Social Liberal Forum’s contribution to the Liberal Democrat policy making process, we are inviting people (whether they are party…
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And we’re off!
As reported in the Liberal Democrat News yesterday, the Social Liberal Forum has now been launched. Our Director, Matthew Sowemimo, has also written a short article on Lib Dem Voice. Our launch appears to have caused a bit of a…
Welcome!
The Social Liberal Forum website is now live! We’ll be adding lots more to this website as it develops, but in the meantime, you might want to check out the following: Our “about” section, including a brief rundown of what…
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