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Dr Evan Harris is a prominent critics of the coalition
Lib Dems elect coalition-sceptics

By Ian Dunt There was dramatic evidence that the tide within the Liberal Democrats was hardening against the Tories over the weekend, when two prominent sceptics of the coalition agreement topped a poll for the federal executive. Dr Evan Harris has stressed that the party must base all future coalition calculations solely on “arithmetic” and… Read more »

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Tim Farron is the Lib Dems' new party president
Tuition fees rebel elected Lib Dem president

By Alex Stevenson The Liberal Democrats have elected an MP who refuses to back his party’s line on tuition fees as their president. Tim Farron, the MP for the Lake District’s Westmorland seat, beat former Richmond MP Susan Kramer, who lost her seat to Conservative Zac Goldsmith at the general election, to the internal management… Read more »