Sentences with word «lib»

It's compulsory for Lib Dem MPs with leadership ambitions to deny they have any leadership ambitions.

Much of Lib - Dem policies were to the left of Labour in the last few years.

I am considering voting Lib Dem, but I am also a member of Baby Milk Action.

Nevertheless, a climate change Mad Lib is essentially what we got — and that's not all bad.

The idea of a Conservative - Liberal coalition has also not met with resounding support from senior Lib Dem figures.

It prompts questions about how many other Lib Dem ministers will now be tempted to quit the government before the next election for similar reasons.

She also became the only Lib Dem woman to attend cabinet.

But he outlined a range of measures, some more likely to be controversial among Lib Dem delegates than others.

The second group of seats consists of two more Lib Dem seats with Labour in second place.

The new Lib Dem's leader's team is comprised of 10 peers, six MPs and further eight figures from other walks of life.

If there is a silly season within conference season, it is surely within Lib Dem conference.

The pupil premium — a key Lib Dem pledge in 2010 — is held up as a success for the party.

He's succeeding the first Lib Dem leader who ever took the party into government.

The key problem is the lack of female Lib Dem MPs: just seven out of the 57 elected in 2010.

He pledged to give his «very best effort» to examining government procurement practices - but several Lib Dem MPs responded by demanding that his tax arrangements receive greater scrutiny.

Many people who are angry about spending cuts seem to have had a particularly satisfying night, constantly tweeting their delight at ever - worse Lib Dem local election results.

He said it had been a «mixed night» for all the main parties but he would not resign if there were further Lib Dem losses.

Therefore every single Lib Dem vote counts especially vis a vis a Labour one.

This will only get noticed by 5 - 10 % of the electorate, but many will be those all - important ex Lib Dem voters.

Most of the former MPs will continue, in true Lib Dem style, to fight on as party activists, and many will be at their conference this week.

This — more than any possible Lib Dem recovery — is the most significant part of last night's result.

Previous Lib Dem conferences would not have been so accommodating.

This is «unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory» for your average Lib Dem.

What was being offered was most of what had been agreed, but without a coalition, without direct Lib Dem involvement in government, and without a pledge to deliver an AV referendum.

For instance, 25 % of Pakistani voters chose Lib - Dem candidates.

Can he do it without formal Lib Dem support?

Of course it's unlikely, as one frustrated Lib Dem remarked to me last night, «to make any difference» to the election outcome, but nevertheless the dynamic has shifted.

I agree that the best coalition would be a Lab - Lib one.

If that is removed from the picture, there is every possibility of a workable Lib Dem - Labour coalition.

He helped negotiate the historic Lib Dem — Conservative Coalition in 2010.

Excellent and precise questioning from the calm and capable Lib Dem man.

He makes the grassroots feel represented, and he provides a distinct Lib Dem voice in the media.

It may even win over soft Lib Dem voters pushed away by all the broken promises.

«Several of the chapters are fairly bread - and - butter Lib Dem stuff,» he notes.

A narrow Lib Dem administration has been set up in its place.

It had been placed in the review because ministers knew they needed to show real progressive grit and put a genuine Lib Dem stamp on what would inevitably be a grim general contraction.

The former investment banker is among a new breed of young Lib Dem MPs whose promotion of more free market policies is in contrast with the party's left - leaning traditions.

A first consequence will no doubt be some revival of Lib - Dem tribal activism.

So let's use it as an education speech Mad Lib, if you will.

A Labour voting friend of mine votes Lib - Dem last time specifically because they were the left - wing party of the three majors.

I have dinner there with a senior Lib Dem figure; I'd better not say who, but he has red hair.

Who will be the first Lib Dem member of cabinet to quit this coalition during the course of this «fixed - term» parliament?

I'm happy to hold my hands up if I'm wrong but I can't at the moment see this being anything other than a far worse Lib Dem performance than average.

This is exactly what happened in 2010, of course, when the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition was formed before parliament was recalled.

Labour and Tory supporters will be able to vote sincerely for their party, with Lib Dems as their second preference, safe in the knowledge that if their candidate is eliminated their vote will still count.

The YouGov poll shows that Labour is likely to do worse in the constituency elections — in which the SNP are slightly in the lead with Lib Dems in a disastrous 5th place after the Greens — but Labour would do much better in a Westminster election (though that is of no practical benefit).

Delegates overwhelming backed Turner's policy motion which pushed for Lib Dems in government to act more decisively to protect defined benefit schemes and rethink defined contribution pensions in the private sector.

Nick Clegg tells Andrew Rawnsley that being deputy prime minister is about more than brandishing the trophies of concessions won by Lib Dems from their coalition partners

Nick Clegg has done well on some issues to distinguish what we believe as Lib Dems from what the Government is doing.