Posts Tagged “david laws”
Eastleigh by-election: your essential round-up of the latest campaign news (13 Feb)
by Stephen Tall on February 13, 2013
Here’s a round-up of news from the past 24 hours in the Eastleigh by-election… Mike Thornton’s campaign in full swing The Lib Dems’ Mike Thornton — pictured here (by Jon Aylwin) with 1994 by-election victor David Chidgey — has been focusing on how the pupil premium, the party’s flagship education policy, has been helping Eastleigh [...]
David Laws to chair 2015 Manifesto Working Group
by Stephen Tall on January 8, 2013
It’s now official: Lib Dem schools minister David Laws will chair the party’s Manifesto Working Group. Lib Dem MP Duncan Hames, who chairs the party’s Federal Policy Committee, has just emailed members with the following message: Last night at the party’s Federal Policy Committee we agreed Nick Clegg’s nomination of David Laws MP to Chair [...]
Let’s hear it for the Lib Dem pupil premium: but don’t expect overnight miracles from it
by Stephen Tall on December 20, 2012
Excellent news from Lib Dem schools minister David Laws yesterday, with the announcement of how much Pupil Premium money each school in England will receive in 2013/14: “Liberal Democrats are building a strong economy and a fair society where everyone (…)
Michael Gove: my holiday romance with David Laws
by Stephen Tall on December 15, 2012
Michael Gove gives great talking head — in an interview with the Spectator’s Fraser Nelson, he says this of his relationship with Lib Dem schools minister David Laws: Gove has more kind words for the Liberal Democrats, with whom he (…)
How much should we tax? How much should we spend? The great unanswered questions in British politics
by Stephen Tall on September 10, 2012
A few weeks ago I took David Laws to task for proposing the UK needs to reduce public spending to 35% of GDP: it currently stands at 43%. I stand by the three points I made then: 1) Just because public spending is higher in the C.21st than in Gladstone’s day is not in itself [...]
On the Nick Clegg leadership debate and David Laws’ return to government
by Stephen Tall on September 7, 2012
The rumblings about Nick Clegg’s leadership of the Lib Dems — today my LibDemVoice colleague Paul Walter has written to make clear his own dyspeptic unhappiness, citing three triggers in the past week which have led him to conclude Nick (…)
Will the reshuffle actually matter?
by Stephen Tall on September 5, 2012
That’s the title of a post I’ve written for the Endeavour Public Affairs website here. And here’s my answer… Will this reshuffle actually matter? That’s the question which looms over the current version of musical chairs currently obsessing the Westminster (…)
Reshuffle round-up: it looks like good news for Swinson & Laws
by Stephen Tall on August 27, 2012
There’s been plenty of reshuffle chit-chat overt the past few weeks, much of it speculative. However, the Sunday papers appears to included some pretty well-sourced information which went beyond the usual space-filling ‘who knows?’, and appears to suggest good news for both Jo Swinson and David Laws — both of whom enjoyed strong support in [...]
Jo Swinson, Julian Huppert & David Laws top Lib Dem members’ reshuffle promotion wish-list
by Stephen Tall on August 23, 2012
Lib Dem Voice polled our members-only forum recently to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 500 party members have responded, and we’re publishing the full results. LDV asked: Which backbench Lib Dem MPs who are not current ministers would you like to [...]
LibLink: Long reach of the Laws
by Stephen Tall on July 14, 2012
David Laws may have resigned from the Coalition’s cabinet two years ago, but (after an initial period of wondering whether to quit politics altogether) his influence hasn’t actually waned much. His interests range across economic and social policy: though he was the party’s education spokesman in opposition, he was a natural fit as chief secretary [...]
