Posts Tagged “sarah teather”
Ashcroft battlegrounds poll: Lib Dems set to lose four marginal seats to Labour
by Stephen Tall on July 6, 2014
The second of Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft’s polls of Lib Dem marginal seats was published this week, focusing on four of our battlegrounds with Labour: Norwich South (held by Simon Wright), Bradford East (David Ward), Brent Central (Sarah Teather standing down, Ibrahim Taguri selected), and Manchester Withington (John Leech). Also included was Brighton Pavilion, which […]
As Channel 4 News goes on titillating ‘fishing trip’, Sarah Teather calls them out
by Stephen Tall on October 11, 2013
I wasn’t too impressed by the timing of Sarah Teather’s announcement — on the eve of the party’s conference — that she wouldn’t be standing as a Lib Dem at the next election. But I was impressed by her performance on Channel 4 News last night. Invited on to talk about immigration in her first […]
Teather’s alternative voice on immigration: “it bothers me that there is a consensus among the three party leaders”
by Stephen Tall on July 14, 2013
Good on Sarah Teather. This weekend’s Guardian carries an excellent in-depth interview with the Lib Dem former children’s minister by Decca Aitkenhead in which she makes clear her deep unease not only with the Coalition’s immigration policy, but also the political consensus of the three party leaders that public concern about immigration means they must [...]
Jon Cruddas: in favour of a 45 top-rate of tax before he was against it
by Stephen Tall on April 7, 2013
Sarah Teather isn’t the only MP attacking George Osborne today. Ed Miliband’s policy chief Jon Cruddas has strong words for the Chancellor in the Sunday People, accusing him of “cruelty” and of “giving a tax cut to millionaires” by dropping the top-rate of tax from 50% to 45% for those earning more than £150,000. So [...]
Teather: “Benefit cap is immoral and divisive”
by Stephen Tall on November 18, 2012
Lib Dem MP for Brent Central Sarah Teather makes the front page of The Observer today for a powerful interview slamming the Government’s plans to bring in a benefit cap. I’m quoting extensively from it, below, but it’s well worth reading the whole piece here. This is clearly an issue that touches Sarah deeply, not [...]
What the three departing Lib Dem ministers have said as they leave government
by Stephen Tall on September 4, 2012
You can catch up on the rolling LibDemVoice live-blog of today’s reshuffle here and the current list of official Lib Dem appointments here. Three Lib Dem ministers are at the time of writing departing the Coalition Government for the backbenches. Each of them has issued statements as follows: Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat MP for Brent [...]
In other news… Teather on pupil premium, State of play for Welsh Lib Dems & other stories
by Stephen Tall on August 28, 2012
Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past few days… Teather: Pupil premium ‘changing the way schools think’ (BBC) The Liberal Democrat MP and minister at the Department of Education Sarah Teather, said the policy is about “changing the whole way schools think”. Speaking to The World [...]
Labour’s new approach to education: ‘Evidence, evidence, evidence’. What can the Lib Dems learn from this?
by Stephen Tall on February 23, 2012
I’m going to do something now I haven’t had cause to do in a good few months: praise a Labour policy. Here’s why. On Tuesday night, I went along to listen to Stephen Twigg, Labour’s shadow education secretary, deliver a speech to a ProgressOnline debate on raising standards in education. (The event was in parliament’s [...]
