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Government agrees to retain Equality Duty under pressure from SLF and EMLD
April 25, 2013 10:14 AM
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 -
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Questioning the "bedroom tax"
March 26, 2013 8:24 AM
By Paula KeaveneyAt 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 tax” were right. The argument about whether the...Government implements more SLF policy on pensions
March 22, 2013 3:21 PM
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. Chancellor George Osborne’s budget statement announced that the Pensions...Budget 2013 - reaction
March 20, 2013 4:30 PM
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 living faced by millions of households, but it's...Guardian, 10/03/13: Liberal Democrat leadership blocks debate on economy at conference
March 11, 2013 2:07 PM
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 our country, if we are unable to discuss a flatlining...
Independent, 10/03/13: ‘Unflinching’ Clegg rejects Cable’s call for £14bn extra borrowing
March 11, 2013 2:04 PM
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 Cable”. Naomi Smith, co-chair of the Social Liberal Forum pressure...
A guide to spring conference
March 07, 2013 1:58 PM
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 the rally...
