Opinion: Spending Money Renewing Trident Would Weaken UK Defences
There is much in Phillip Hammond’s letter arguing for the like for like renewal of Trident to agree with, but he is still wrong on the main points. It is Britain’s conventional forces that give us...
View ArticlePromise Made, Promise Kept – A Lib Dem Pay Packet Boost For #Loughborough...
Today’s budget saw the delivery of a key Lib Dem 2010 manifesto pledge – to raise the personal allowance to £10,000 and drastically reduce the amount of tax payable by individuals on low incomes....
View ArticleA Nice Surprise This Pay Day
Lib Dems in government are raising the personal allowance for Income Tax meaning over two million people are lifted out of paying tax all together, and low and middle income earners will each be £600...
View ArticleEd Balls Got It Wrong
Ed Balls predicted that we would be back in recession by now. Instead it’s been announced that the economy has grown by 0.6% in the second quarter. That might not sound like much, but it’s actually as...
View Article#LibDems Stand Tall & Proud Of Achievements In Government
Lib Dems are being encouraged to challenge opponents’ criticism of the coalition government’s record and to talk with persistence and pride about some of the many Lib Dem achievements in government. In...
View ArticleHelp Available In #Leicestershire To Get A Job
Tackling youth unemployment is one of the Lib Dems’ top priorities in government. On Tuesday Nick Clegg was in Salford to announce an extra £50m in funding the for youth contract, a scheme which...
View ArticleNick Clegg’s Speech To Glasgow Conference
In his September speech to conference in Glasgow, Nick Clegg sets out why Lib Dems should be proud of what they’ve achieved, and stopped, in government. Tagged: Conference, Labour, National Policy,...
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