Dazzling Achievements Still To Come

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Mar 082006
Ming Campbell MP began his leadership by saying the Liberal Democrats have “many dazzling achievements still to come.” In his speech closing the Spring Conference, he said the country needed a distinct liberal democratic party and that politics under New Labour had become “managerial, not inspirational.” He also endorsed the findings of the Power Inquiry saying that we needed “a shift away from the executive back to Parliament, and from central to local government.” He said we need to wage a war on poverty and to protect civil liberties from the illiberal laws of the Labour government“. “Our alternative is clear,” he said, “a greener, fairer, decentralised and democratic Britain – a Britain at peace with itself at home and admired abroad.”

Ming also promised to modernise the party’s internal organisation and campaigning techniques. “I’m going to ask a team of our leading campaigners to draw on the latest techniques to make sure we maintain our lead as the most innovative campaigning party in British politics. Raising money, selecting and training candidates and agents, building and maintaining local parties, involving and including our members, communicating through a 24-hour media, are all areas where we need new ideas.” He said he would set up a special trust fund to provide women and ethnic minority candidates with financial support, and ask every Parliamentarian to mentor a woman and an ethnic minority candidate, to give them the support and skills they need to get and elected.

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