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Good practice in palliative care by @kmaryreid.bsky.social. Our team member Mary's husband Ian died last month. Here she writes about the excellent care he and the family received in the last few days of his life. www.libdemvoice.org/good-practic...
Good practice in palliative care
Note that this post includes end of life details which you may want to avoid. The Assisted Dying Bill has raised questions about the quality of palliative care under the NHS. Whatever your views on as...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
What is a liberal party for? by @caronmlindsay.bsky.social. Some thoughts on party strategy and the controversy over diversity quotas. www.libdemvoice.org/what-is-a-li...
What is a liberal party for?
We've talked a lot about the changes the party has made to diversity quotas for the forthcoming presidential election this week. Presidential candidates Prue and Josh have had their say, as have Rebec...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Meanwhile, north and west of the English borders, David Chadwick wants the Welsh steel industry to get a bit of love, whilst @willierennie.bsky.social is calling for transformation of Scotland’s care system and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk has been talking renewables… www.libdemvoice.org/8-october-20...
8 October 2025 - today's Scottish and Welsh press releases
Rennie comments on embargoed care system report Davey visits Edinburgh College and sets out plans to cut bills UK Government must strike steel deal to save what’s left of Welsh industry Rennie com...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If Kemi Badenoch be the food of chaos, play on, play on, Kemi… today’s Federal press releases focus on Tory fantasy economics, whilst @calummillerld.bsky.social is tougher on China than Labour are…
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Today’s @libdems.org.uk press releases are live now, with @eddavey.libdems.org.uk marking the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, @libdemdaisy.bsky.social noting, for the benefit of Reform, that local government finance is hard…
October 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reposted
My debut @libdemvoice.org article

@libdems.org.uk have to champion climate transition planning

For credibility and relationships with experts and activists, and to attract and retain members as the most progressive party on climate

@greenlibdems.org.uk

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Transition planning is back on the table. It could be the UK’s biggest positive impact on sustainability
During the 2024 General Election, someone asked me for the best thing the Conservative government had done. I said transition planning. Or at least putting the wheels for transition planning in motion...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Here’s this week’s Mathew on Monday - the new nasty party, progressive alliances and a new book for political geeks www.libdemvoice.org/mathew-on-mo...
Mathew on Monday – nasty party, progressive alliances and a new book
Labour…the real nasty party! Famously, at the 2002 Conservative Party Conference, the then Tory Chairman and future Prime Minister Theresa May called her own party ‘the nasty party.’ Or, to be fair, i...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Welcome to Lewis Page, who debuts here with a piece noting that there are potential voters at the next General Election that we might be missing… www.libdemvoice.org/under-18s-ca...
Under 18s can vote: will it be for Farage?
There has been a lot of discourse around the new voting age brought in by Labour, and as a 17-year-old I was worried this would boost Reform. While polling data from Yougov suggests Farage is typicall...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
There’s always a danger in looking inwards, so Zachary Barker suggests that we look outwards or rather, upwards… www.libdemvoice.org/reclaiming-s...
Reclaiming Space
Through the Adversity, the Stars Royal Air Force Motto The history of the politics of Space has always been colourful. I was reminded of this when I recently stood in the Imperial War Museum in London...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Which Lib Dem MP dropped the F bomb on the #ldconf fringe? (And rightly so in the opinion of our editor @caronmlindsay.bsky.social in her Conference Diary) www.libdemvoice.org/carons-confe...
Caron's Conference Diary: Lobsters and an MP barking
It's 10 am on Sunday morning as I write this. I've already been to an 8am consultation session, of which more later.  So far my Conference has been everything I've wanted it to be - a wonderful catch-...
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September 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
How do we fight the far right’s malevolent influence on our country? @robblackie.bsky.social has some ideas… www.libdemvoice.org/how-to-fight...
How to fight the far right
The last few weeks have been a worrying time. Friends of mine have told me that, because they aren’t white, they are worried about visiting parts of our country. Robert Jenrick and other politicians h...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The weekend’s press releases are out, featuring @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on compensating victims of the carer allowance scandal, more on why Lord Mandelson was ever allowed to be our Ambassador to the US, and @libdemdaisy.bsky.social wants to know who’s funding Nigel Farage’s trips to the US…
September 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Sussex Liberal Democrats have announced their Mayoral candidate for next year, and Ben Dempsey has got a real chance to win… www.libdemvoice.org/new-lib-dem-...
New Lib Dem Candidate for Mayor of Sussex: ‘We will win with unity, not division’
Sussex Liberal Democrats have nominated environmental expert Ben Dempsey as their candidate for the upcoming election for Mayor of Sussex. The party says that with the Conservatives and Labour in free...
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September 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM