Sentences with phrase «of social liberals»

Sir Menzies may also find himself arbitrating in an internal party dispute when a group of social liberals, including David Laws and Nick Clegg, contribute to a book of essays on the future of the party this autumn.

[104] In February 2009 a group of social liberals founded the Social Liberal Forum, a pressure group within the party, to pursue social liberal policies.

At the other end of the social spectrum to Ukip, many of the social liberals deserting the Lib Dems opted for the Greens rather than Labour.

Reeves was wholly wrong to say of social liberals that our principles were those of Labour rather than the Liberal Democrats.

During his Massachusetts political career, Romney presented himself as something of a social liberal.

Here it presents Rawls and Dworkin as representatives of a social liberal tradition that values income equality in itself.

Prateek Buch, director of the Social Liberal Forum, said: «Britain needs a more effective economic approach beyond hoping that cutting government spending will heal the economy....

The proposal here is not the policy of the Social Liberal Forum.

But Steve Webb has lasted the course — in fact he's the longest serving pensions minister since the job was invented — and I caught up with him to discuss how it's been for the man whose other badge of honour is that he was one of the founders of the Social Liberal Forum.

Paula Keaveney is a member of the Social Liberal Forum Council and a former Leader of the Lib Dem Group on Liverpool City Council.

Following the election of the Social Liberal Forum Council, we agreed that the SLF should adopt the following statement as a record of our aims and objectives:

Anyone who is a member of the Social Liberal Forum is eligible to stand and membership of the SLF is free to all members of the Liberal Democrats.

Former Chair of the Social Liberal Forum Richard Grayson writes: Check out an e-pamphlet I have written called The Liberal Democrat Journey to a Lib - Con Coalition — and Where Next?

At the launch of the Social Liberal Forum in Harrogate, there was considerable enthusiasm among those attending for talking to people outside the Liberal Democrats where there is scope for developing policy ideas together.

The Autumn 2010 edition of Renewal — a journal of social democracy — sees the Chair of the Social Liberal Forum David Hall - Matthews writing about the formation of the Coalition government from a Lib Dem perspective.

If this Bill is passed it will directly go against the founding principles of the Social Liberal Forum; by doing great damage to social justice.

Paula Keaveney is a member of the Social Liberal Forum Governing Council and a conference representative from Garston and Halewood (Liverpool).

One of the key principles of the Social Liberal Forum is to maintain internal democracy of the Liberal Democrats.

To help with the ambition of the Social Liberal Forum to develop radical, distinctive and progressive policies and manifesto for the next election,...

Matthew Sowemimo, Director of the Social Liberal Forum, has written a new opinion piece on Liberal Democrat Voice arguing for the party not to be timid in the way it presents its agenda:

This post is written by Paul Hindley, Member of the Social Liberal Forum and the Liberal Democrats from Blackpool, and recently graduated from Lancaster University.

As a member of the Social Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prosperity).

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Membership of the Social Liberal Forum gives you a say in the running of the organisation.

Membership of the Social Liberal Forum is free.

Full membership of the Social Liberal Forum is only open to members of the Liberal Democrats (or one of our sister parties).

Matthew Sowemimo, Director of the Social Liberal Forum, has written a new opinion piece on Liberal Democrat Voice arguing for the party not to be timid in the way it presents its agenda: The party's pre-election manifesto — A Fresh...

Steve Webb MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary (and Chair of the Social Liberal Forum's Advisory Board), will be leading a policy discussion at Portcullis House, Westminster, on Wednesday 25 February.

The launch of the Social Liberal Forum in Harrogate was a truly excellent meeting — I don't think I have ever come across so much enthusiasm at such an event.

Anyone wishing more information on the activities of the Social Liberal Forum in Scotland should «like» our Facebook page, email me at [email protected] or phone me at 0141-946-4102.

The Guardian has also published the following letter from Chair of the Social Liberal Forum, David Hall - Matthews:

There has been a bit of a debate waging over the past week about «classical (or economic) liberals versus social liberals,» partly due to the launch of the Social Liberal Forum and exacerbated by a recent editorial in Liberator Magazine.

So why am I uneasy about the appearance of the Social Liberal Forum?

The first meeting of the newly - formed East Midlands branch of the Social Liberal Forum will take place on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011, at the Leicester Secular Society building, on Humberstone Gate in the city, starting at 7 pm.

To help with the ambition of the Social Liberal Forum to develop radical, distinctive and progressive policies and manifesto for the next election, we are seeking to establish regional Social Liberal Forums where we can focus on ensuring everybody within the party gets their say.

Not exact matches

The Liberals can argue that beyond the social good provided by its spending initiatives, some of its policies do carry an economic benefit.

She talks about the scores of ethnographies she'd read, and how white, liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most of the Klan members they studied were pretty nice people.

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

In response to a question posed by Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland on temporary foreign workers, Jason Kenney, the Minister of Employment and Social Development gave the following response:

The liberal side puts this in the same broad category of other social - welfare programs.

The couple — she was a social worker, he was an engineer — took out a second mortgage to set up a brewing operation and made liberal use of several $ 10,000 - limit credit lines.

«I am very committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for all ideas,» he said after Mr. Cruz ticked off several examples of potential liberal bias on the social network.

It was currently a four - way race, with political novice and social liberal Emmanuel Macron polling slightly ahead of the far - right candidate Marine Le Pen.

The Trudeau Liberals will campaign against this type of social conservatism, and why not?

It is too early to say whether the election will result in the continuation of the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, a revival of the conservative - liberal coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), or even a three - way coalition between the conservatives, the FDP, and the Green Party.

Nevermind that B.C.'s Minister of Natural Gas Development, Rich Coleman, who was responsible for reviewing the environmental and social impacts of Woodfibre LNG, also has a mandate to develop an LNG export industry — and he's one of the BC Liberals» largest fundraisers.

The past two decades of Chinese growth have disproportionately benefited a small elite that has become increasingly entrenched; the next stage must focus on liberal reforms to build social capital more broadly.

On Friday, Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner gave notice of motion to have Kenney and «workers who have lost their jobs» to temporary foreign workers appear before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities to address problems with the foreign workers program.

Trudeau became party leader in 2013 and immediately began the Obamanization of the Liberals: reaching out to the young and minorities, and utilizing social media.

«Instead of helping some of the most disadvantaged children in our communities, Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals spent $ 182 million on a computer mess,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.