Archive: Lib Dem Conference

Clegg conference speech 2011: Reactions

Clegg's speech was well received in the hall.

Prominent Liberal Democrats tell politics.co.uk what they thought of Nick Clegg's speech.

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Clegg pulls a surprising victory from the jaws of mediocrity

Clegg: Never the best public speaker

He'll never be a great public speaker, but the ingredients were in there for surviving coalition.

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Clegg comes clean: 'Tuition fees vote was heart wrenching'

Clegg delivers his passionate speech to Liberal Democrat delegates.

The decision to increase tuition fees was the most "heart wrenching" for Nick Clegg, he has admitted.

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Nick Clegg conference speech in full

Nick Clegg at the Liberal Democrat party conference.

Read Nick Clegg's keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in full on politics.co.uk.

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Clegg's speech looks damp and witless

Clegg is full speech mode. But will it be better today.

The Lib Dem leader will need to offer his party bigger prizes if he's to convince them of the wisdom of joining the coalition.

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Chris Huhne Lib Dem conference speech in full

Chris Huhne issues a stark warning to Conservative right-wingers in his conference speech.

Read energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne's speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in full on politics.co.uk.

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NHS reform: Lib Dems outline fight to come

A member of security watches through a curtain while Nick Clegg conducts a Q&A in Birmingham. The party leadership was anxious about another vote on NHS reform.

The manner in which Liberal Democrat peers will battle NHS reforms was laid out this morning, as delegates expressed irritation with the bill.

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Huhne takes on the energy companies

Chris Huhne has made his irritation with energy providers clear in recent days

Chris Huhne will fire another warning shot across the bow of British energy companies today with demands for a radical compensation system.

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Comment: Shareholders need to get tough on executive salaries

Christine Berry is policy officer at FairPensions

Vince Cable is right to focus on executive salaries. We need to force investors to take on management.

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Clegg: Best thing about PMQs is no-one watches it

Clegg votes at the Lib Dem party conference

The only saving grace of prime minister's question is that the public don’t watch it, Nick Clegg has said.

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Sketch: Vince Cable and the coalition of doom

No sunny uplands in the Temple of Doom

The business secretary opted to give the "sunny uplands" a miss this year. His speech was a masterclass of misery.

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Cable's 'responsible capitalism' speech fails to silence the critics

Cable: People want responsible capitalism

Vince Cable's dramatic promise of a new "responsible capitalism" was widely mocked by Labour figures and trade unions today.

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Vince Cable 'appalling inequality' speech in full

'We now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war'

Read Vince Cable's 2011 conference speech, in which he attacks "appalling inequality", in full on politics.co.uk.

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Tim Farron conference speech in full

'We must fight every day to ensure that we never become part of the establishment'

Read Tim Farron's speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in full with politics.co.uk.

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Lynne Featherstone conference speech in full

'To deny one group of people the same opportunities offered to another is not only discrimination, but is not fair'

Read Lynne Featherstone's conference speech in full on politics.co.uk.

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Nick Clegg rally speech in full

'People can no longer claim we're not up to the job.'

Read Nick Clegg's speech to the Liberal Democrat conference opening rally in full on politics.co.uk.

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Phone-hacking: Lib Dems demand overhaul of press regulation

The press watchdog needs to have tougher powers, Lib Dems decide

The Press Complaints Commission must be radically overhauled if it is to regulate the industry after the phone-hacking scandal, Liberal Democrats agreed today.

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Lib Dem president: 'Survival is what we do'

Resilient: Farron says the party is built for survival

The Liberal Democrats can survive rock-bottom poll ratings and media attacks because of the resilience of the party, its president has said.

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Lib Dems overwhelmingly back overhaul of drug laws

Drug reform is seen as a toxic issue

Liberal Democrat members voted overwhelmingly to investigate the decriminalisation of all drugs yesterday.

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Comment: The time is right for Lib Dem drug vote

'Things can be different this time'

Public opinion is ready for a progressive view on drugs. The Lib Dems must not back down.

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A week in politics: Secret glee of the Lib Dems

Adulation for Clegg at the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool

Here's our summary of the last seven days in British politics - in which the Lib Dems have finally come to terms with being in power.

Vince Cable goes to war against capitalism

Cable: Capitalism takes no prisoners.

Vince Cable has offered a stark warning to the financial sector, promising tough government action against "the murky world of corporate behaviour".

Cable speech in full

Cable speech in full

Read Vince Cable's controversial speech on capitalism in full, on politics.co.uk.

Sketch: Too early for Trident excitement

Lib Dems aren't keen on these

It may have been early, but that didn't stop Lib Dems from getting hung up - while hungover - on Trident.

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