Sentences with phrase «scottish liberal students»

As a teenager I joined Jo Grimond's Liberal Party and as a student in Scotland became Chairman of Glasgow University Liberal Club, President of the Association of Scottish Liberal Students, Treasurer of the Scottish Young Liberals and in 1970, Liberal parliamentary candidate for Paisley.

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If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

Labour entered government by forming a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up - front tuition fees for university students as the price for a coalition deal.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have also singled out education as an important policy area, calling for a «pupil premium» to commit additional funding to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.