Posts Tagged “general election 2015”
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 [...]
The futility of forecasts OR Why no-one knows who’ll win the next election
by Stephen Tall on January 1, 2013
If you don’t read Tim ‘Undercover Economist’ Harford, then you should. I frequently link to his stuff in my weekly ‘essential reading’ lists because he’s witty, concise and forensic, a tricky combo. His latest post An insatiable desire to peer (…)
‘How can Lib Dems avoid oblivion?’ asks PoliticsHome
by Stephen Tall on March 18, 2012
Over at PoliticsHome, Mark Gettleson puts Lib Dem campaigning under the microscope to ask what the 2015 general election might hold for the party. He makes four points: 1. In 2010, the Lib Dems won the air war and lost the ground war There had been an uncoordinated increase in votes – around a million [...]
