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Stunning turnout at Bournemouth fringe meeting

Stunning turnout at Bournemouth fringe meeting

The fringe meeting ‘Shouldn’t we be doing better? – the need for bolder messaging’, hosted by the New Liberal Manifesto at the Liberal Democrats’ 2023 autumn conference in Bournemouth, attracted a stunning turnout. Even several minutes before the meeting was due to start, the room was filled to twice its recommended capacity, with the queue stretching well down the corridor. Numerous people were turned away.

To see Professor John Curtice’s presentation to the meeting, click here.

To see the BBC website’s report on the meeting, click https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66902610

To watch a recording of the meeting, click
(part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9XA9F05Qe8
(part 2) https://youtu.be/ZT1t-AoKRIQ?si=cwNGS5BuV3Bpwv5Q
(part 3) https://youtu.be/PhS2GVwpQvQ?si+cjzm-z-a2dEas8hw

NLM to host fringe meeting at Bournemouth conference

The New Liberal Manifesto is hosting a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrats’ federal conference in Bournemouth on Saturday 23 September 2023. The meeting, ‘Shouldn’t we be doing better? – the need for bolder messaging’, will feature the respected psephologist and pollster John Curtice, a response from the party’s manifesto coordinator Dick Newby, and be chaired by the Oxford West & Abingdon MP Layla Moran. Anyone wishing to attend the fringe meeting must be registered for the Lib Dem conference. For more details, see the Activities tab.

Radix features New Liberal Manifesto

The UK liberal discussion website RadixUK.org has published a piece about the New Liberal Manifesto. See it at https://radixuk.org/opinion/towards-a-new-liberal-manifesto/

They said it …

Responding to a piece about the New Liberal Manifesto on Lib Dem Voice, here are two comments:

“I hope the New Liberal Manifesto gets the attention it deserves. Thank you to those who have produced it. When I renewed my membership recently I asked myself why. This paper goes a long way towards giving a credible answer.” – Anthony Acton

“We are indebted to the reference group and should recognise the careful hard work that has gone into it. Not everyone will agree with every clause and we should be clear as to what the document is not. But at first reading it looks like a very good tool for holding the party together with philosophical integrity and a compass for our future journeys together.” – Geoff Reid

https://www.libdemvoice.org/restating-our-political-identity-through-a-new-liberal-manifesto-69238.html

Manifesto featured in Independent column

The respected political commentator Andrew Grice refers to The New Liberal Manifesto in his ‘Inside Westminster’ column in today’s Independent. Of Lab/LibDem cooperation, Grice writes: “There is no guarantee such cooperation will deliver a non-Tory government but there is no road to power at the next election without it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/boris-johnson-byelection-labour-keir-starmer-b1969213.html

Launch date confirmed

The launch date for the New Liberal Manifesto has been confirmed as Friday 3 December. A press release will go out to various media, embargoed until 00.01 on Friday (UK time). We will try and keep up to date with the main media coverage on this Billboard.

 

Accessible version available

The New Liberal Manifesto will be available in both illustrated (designed) and accessible (text-only) formats. Nim Design of Harrow, which has vast experience of producing reports and publications for the political, NGO and charity sectors, has done a bright layout of the manifesto, but for people who use braille and other reading-assistance devices, a designed layout can be problematical. The newliberalmanifesto.org.uk site will therefore have a text-only version for ease of reading for anyone who needs or wishes to make use of it.

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End of three-year process

As the New Liberal Manifesto nears completition, it marks the end of a three-year process. The first meeting to set it in motion took place in November 2018 when Chris Bowers, David Howarth and Paul Pettinger met to agree what the NLM was intended to achieve. The political and electoral ructions of 2019 set the project back, as indeed did the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. But in 2021 the project was revived under a new structure with Bowers as lead author and a reference group of four people (Howarth, Duncan Brack, Monica Harding and Rob Parsons) covering pretty much every level of involvement in the Liberal Democrat party.

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