Gary Gibbon
Lib Dems in Glasgow: red lines and blue lines
Senior Lib Dems are doing their best to bat away questions about whether they’d prefer to do business with Labour or the Tories after the next election.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Cable – Jeremiah sulks in the Cave of Adullam
Nick Clegg will close the economy debate on Monday but Vince Cable will not be chipping in with a helpful speech, indeed he will not be in the conference chamber.
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Gary Gibbon
‘It’s half time – but we’re 5-0 down’
Gary Gibbon takes the air at Nick Clegg’s opening speech at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton.
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Davey: The lowdown from a possible future Lib Dem leader
Has Ed Davey got it in him to be the next Lib Dem leader? Some insiders think so – come and make up your mind when Gary Gibbon interviews him at the Liberal Democrat party conference on 24 September.
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Gary Gibbon
NHS Q and A not a cure for Lib Dem ills
The Q and A session on the NHS reforms is a lot better for the leadership than the full-scale debate and vote that a majority of delegates wanted but can’t have (they couldn’t quite get the two thirds majority rules required). But even the Q and A is trickier than the leadership imagined when it was put in the original agenda.
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Gary Gibbon
Nick Clegg’s speech: ending 65 years of waiting
The leader’s speech had grabby turns of phrase to get across a message Mr Clegg has been hammering home since he came to office, the accidental Deputy Prime Minister, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Heavy defeat for Lib Dem leadership on free schools
If Lib Dems, resourceful and determined activists and councilors some of them, decide they want to throw every spanner they can at the free schools movement they could be useful allies for the teacher unions and others already engaged in that campaign, writes Politicsl Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Trident: something else for the Lib Dem trophy cupboard?
The leadership have been a bit surprised by the vote to call an emergency debate on Trident. It was expecting the delegates to take a pot-shot at government housing benefit changes or GP commissioning changes instead, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dem conference: sense of unease but not revolt
Danny Alexander, the uber moderniser, just got a reasonably good reception for giving a speech George Osborne would have heartily approved of, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Clegg tells Lib Dems to enjoy the power
From a sparsely attended Conference hall this afternoon there’s nothing too exiting going on… but it should fill up for the AV Yes Campaign rally – about the only thing these days that could unite Charles Kennedy and Nick Clegg on a platform.