The Social Liberal Forum campaigns for policies that promote social justice and to narrow gaps in opportunity and power between the rich and poor, as a way of freeing society from poverty, ignorance and conformity. As we launch this new…
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SLF in the media – archive
Daily Mail, 03/08/12: Cameron risks Lib Dem backlash as he gives in to Tory rebels and kills off plans to reform House of Lords Huffington Post, 20/07/12: Liberal Democrats Should Stop Looking for Reasons to Leave the Coalition… And Start…
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Government agrees to retain Equality Duty under pressure from SLF and EMLD
By Janice Turner, SLF Council member A joint campaign by the SLF and Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats has succeeded in persuading the government to back down over abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s General Duty. The proposal was to abolish…
Questioning the “bedroom tax”
By Paula Keaveney At the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference recently, I asked three questions about the so called “bedroom tax”. I got a range of answers , although the one that saddened me the most mainly focused on whether the words “bedroom…
Government implements more SLF policy on pensions
By SLF Council member and pensions expert Janice Turner Millions of private sector members of final salary and career average pension schemes have a better chance of a decent retirement after the government implemented more SLF pensions policy in this week’s…
Budget 2013 – reaction
The Budget contains some welcome measures, especially on childcare costs and raising the personal tax allowance to £10,000 next year. The latter is a Liberal Democrat commitment being delivered in government, and will go some way to ease the spiraling cost of…
Tagged with: budget, george osborne, income tax, office of budget responsibility, vince cable
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Guardian, 10/03/13: Liberal Democrat leadership blocks debate on economy at conference
Prateek Buch, director of the Social Liberal Forum (SLF) pressure group, said: “I cannot understand how a serious party of government can decide, against the democratic will of our members, not to debate the single most important issue that faces…
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Independent, 10/03/13: ‘Unflinching’ Clegg rejects Cable’s call for £14bn extra borrowing
Internal Lib Dem tensions over the Coalition’s economic strategy surfaced at the weekend’s conference. Grassroots allies of Mr Cable failed in an attempt to win an emergency debate in which they would have pushed an economic “Plan C”, or “Plan…
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A guide to spring conference
By Linda Jack, SLF Council member We expect one of the highlights of the weekend to be our Friday evening fringe with Vince Cable “How we get growing again – the road to 2015”. It will be in Hall 4 after…
Tagged with: economy, fringe, linda jack, opinion, spring conference 2013, vince cable
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URGENT: Emergency motion to Spring Conference: Kickstarting economic growth
Below is the text of an Emergency Motion being submitted to Liberal Democrat Spring Conference – to support the motion, please fill in the form below Emergency motion: kickstarting economic growth Conference is concerned that the latest published figures show:…
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