Tony Greaves: From angry young man to simmering old guru
There is something a little incongruous about the notion of the Liberal Democrats’ oldest angry young man donning the ermine of a peer of the realm. … Read the full post »
David Owen was a Labour Foreign Secretary, then one of the founders of the SDP and subsequently party leader, before leading a rump of the SDP after opposing the party’s merger with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats.
There is something a little incongruous about the notion of the Liberal Democrats’ oldest angry young man donning the ermine of a peer of the realm. … Read the full post »
Perhaps it is not surprising that Shirley Williams picks election day in October 1964 as the high point of her long political career. … Read the full post »
In the 1959 general election just 2,000 votes separated Ludovic Kennedy from becoming Liberal MP for Rochdale, and possibly a future party leader. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrats, and before them Social Democrats and Liberals too, are well used to a surge in poll figures seeing them overtake another party and so generate a flurry of excited predictions about the future of British politics. … Read the full post »
Barring some unexpected major political event, this will be Nick Clegg’s last national political statement of the year. … Read the full post »
In recently praising Jeremy Browne for arguing that the Liberal Democrats must guard against being pigeonholed as only being interested in issues that do not win much public support, I added a caveat about how his broader vision of what the Liberal Democrats should be for (social mobility – yuk) showed how inconsistent senior Liberal Democrats … Read the full post »
Nick Clegg said, “We want a truly open society, in which every man and woman will be able to go as far as their talent, ambition and effort take them”. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #11 is a special Birmingham Lib Dem conference preview, featuring three doctors: Owen, Harris and Who. … Read the full post »
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, wearing a Yes To Fairer Votes badge, closed the party’s Sheffield conference with a return to his theme of Alarm Clock Britain. … Read the full post »
On 25 January 1981, four senior Labour politicians – Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams – issued the Limehouse Declaration, so called after David Owen’s East London home. … Read the full post »