Lib Dem Conference preview: Tame in the hall, feral on the fringe
The disability reform debate in the hall and the NHS debate outside are seemingly the only bright spots during the Liberal Democrat conference.
The disability reform debate in the hall and the NHS debate outside are seemingly the only bright spots during the Liberal Democrat conference.
The Social Liberal Forum conference was more than the sum of its parts and a return to values-driven policy discourse, writes executive member Dr Prateek Buch.
Liberal Democrat party member, Dr Prateek Buch, gives his thoughts on a year in the coalition government and what the future holds for the party.
It’s at this time that the Liberal Democrat grassroots pressure for changes must be heard the loudest, to prevent the government from making cosmetic or wrong-headed amendments to the NHS legislation and try to pass them off as significant improvements to the policy.
Liberal Democrats have left with a with a clear direction of travel on NHS for both the Party’s leadership.
Lib Dem activists at the party’s spring conference will be speak out against NHS plans that go against either established party policy, democratically agreed upon at previous conferences, or our values.