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Nick Clegg: We’ve made progress on mental health but there’s still work to do

It's time for proper training for GPs and teachers, a new funding model and nationwide awareness of the issue Eight years ago, when I became leader of the Liberal Democrats, I used one of my first opportunities at Prime Minister's Questions to ask Gordon Brown about mental health services. The House of Commons chamber, usually a hostile wall of sound, became quiet. Afterwards, a number of MPs told me I was "brave" to raise the issue.

NCMP
4 Mar 2016
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More carrot, less stick in improving diversity

I'm generally supportive of the diversity motion introducing all women shortlists (AWS) at the next federal conference in York, (this argument is particularly persuasive), but will AWS permanently solve the problem of our party being too male and pale? If the proposals are passed and are successful, we might look in the Westminster bubble like we have addressed the gender disparity, however, as a party that relies on its local activists and councillors we ought to embed this cultural change more broadly. As Mark Pack has pointed out, we don't have enough women councillors, council candidates and local party officers (all about a third of total). And, as noted in one of the reports to conference, the percentage of female approved candidates is 27%. The motion doesn't address this except to say-

TJNC
4 Mar 2016
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