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Lib Dem leadership election rules: setting the rules to maximise the benefit to the party

The Federal Board (FB) met on Saturday to agree the election timetable for electing someone to succeed Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Full details will be going out to party members during the week, so rather than duplicate that information I wanted to pull out a few of the pieces of thinking behind the decisions which have been made. All the more so as there is a very widespread range of views amongst party members as to how long the ideal leadership election contest would be. Whatever the FB decided, they'd be a chunk of members who think it is wrong.

MP
26 Jun 2017
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Westbury - Lidl application goes in

An application to demolish the old Co-op and to build a new Lidl foodstore has been submitted to Wiltshire Council. Anyone wishing to comment has until July 21st. You can see the details on the WC planning site here.

26 Jun 2017
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Alistair Carmichael

'Back soft Brexit,’ unions urge Labour

50 senior party figures tell party leader Jeremy Corbyn 'to fight unambiguously for membership of the single market' Jeremy Corbyn was under pressure from across the labour movement last night to support a softer form of Brexit as the TUC joined senior party figures in calling for Britain to retain the option of staying in the single market.

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