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Earlier this week, LibDemVoice started asking party members signed up to our discussion forum a range of questions — the survey is still live, but one of the questions is already a little previous so we’re reporting it early… We asked: Would you support or oppose David Laws making a return to government at the [...]

Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week… Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt is taking on sexism in the BBC: ‘The BBC must ensure there are more women presenters and executives working on its radio network if it is to justify its licence fee, MP Tessa [...]

The debate reverberated here on LibDemVoice yesterday: Should Stephen Hester accept his bonus? Here’s what Nick Clegg had to say about it all yesterday: (Available on the BBC website here.) And here’s how Jeremy Browne handled the issue on BBC1′s Question Time on Thursday night. * Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and [...]

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth today on the right as evidence emerges that David Cameron is backsliding on his ‘veto’ preventing the European Union from enforcing fiscal integration among the Eurozone countries. Here’s how The Guardian reports it: Ahead of Monday’s summit of EU leaders, which is due to finalise “political agreement” on the [...]

Nick Clegg’s tax cut speech dominated the political headlines yesterday — you can watch a 4-minute snippet below: (Available on the BBC website here.) Here’s what my LibDemVoice colleagues had to say about Nick’s call for lower taxes: Clegg’s call for income tax cuts for the low paid is welcome, but will the Tories back [...]

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg appeared on BBC1′s Andrew Marr show this morning, and stuck up for the Coalition policy that there should be a £500 a week benefit cap: “It surely can’t be fair, can’t be right, that you can be earning more on benefits than someone going out and earning £35,000, which is [...]

Nick Clegg yesterday called on more British companies to offer shares to their employees, arguing it will improve productivity and unlock growth: “We don’t believe our problem is too much capitalism – we think it’s that too few people have capital.” (Also available on the BBC website here.) * You can read Nick’s speech in [...]

Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove’s suggestion that a new royal yacht should be “a gift from the nation to her majesty” on the occasion of her diamond jubilee earned diplomatically short shrift from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg …

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa I read The Leopard before discovering it was Nick Clegg’s book choice for his desert island (honest)… which is probably as well because this is the story of a corpulent, indulgent prince (Don Fabrizio Corbera) who presides over a declining kingdom, recognising that he represents an old [...]

There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader… (Hat-tip to the Colchester Daily Gazette.) Here’s veteran Lib Dem MP for Colchester Sir Bob Russell, knighted for public service in this year’s honours, enjoying a frame of snooker with Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg. What do [...]