…picking a shadow cabinet when you don’t have all eyes watching, waiting for you to make clear exactly what your intentions are with regard to the party. If your leadership hasn’t been subjected to intense probing by spectators and participants alike you are not under the same pressures and scrutiny and can take stock, deliberate before revealing your hand.
Having worked as a constituency MP for the last 18 months and increased her majority in the face of a strong Labour campaign, Sarah is to join the Liberal Democrat ‘front bench’ team....
Received a letter from Charles Kennedy this morning urging me to vote because ‘in certain places, the election is effectively a straight choice between having a Liberal Democrat or a Labour MP’.
The real alternative has been distilled to four key points:
end student tuition and top-up fees prevent older people having to selltheir homes to pay for long term personal care provide 10,000 more police and cut their paperwork scrap the unfair council tax A little something for everyone....
Received a letter from Charles Kennedy this morning urging me to vote because ‘in certain places, the election is effectively a straight choice between having a Liberal Democrat or a Labour MP’.
The real alternative has been distilled to four key points:
end student tuition and top-up fees prevent older people having to selltheir homes to pay for long term personal care provide 10,000 more police and cut their paperwork scrap the unfair council tax A little something for everyone....
If you received a copy of Brent People from the Liberal Democrats over the weekend you’ll have seen this pic already.
More over at Brent East Campaigning
A departure from the tabloid red top of Brent News, the latest campaign freesheet from the Lib Dems, Brent News, leads with the headline of ‘Sarah Set To Win’ - naturally…
It features a photo of the Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy with Sarah Teather on Kilburn High Road. Good to see that when top ‘names’ (to borrow the description Yasmin gave to the ‘top labour’ people who have given her support) from the Lib Dems come to support their candidate it is their Leader and prospective Prime Minister that visits....