Monthly Archives: November 2006

Queen’s Speech 2006: Ming Campbell’s reply

I begin as is all too often necessary by joining the Prime Minister and the Right Honourable member for Witney in their expressions of sympathy and condolence for the families and friends of those who have most recently died or …

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Government billion-pound anti-truancy strategy is misdirected

A new survey released by the charity beatbullying at the start of Anti-bullying Week shows a clear link between bullying and truancy, with over a third of children who are absent from school missing lessons because of the fear of …

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Posted in Bullying, Childcare, Education, Media releases | 1 Comment

Iraq – there is another way

Ming Campbell recently wrote to party supporters as follows: Of all the problems that face our country today, the situation in Iraq is the most tragic; not only because of the scale of the catastrophe in that country – food …

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Posted in Iraq, Letter, Middle East | 3 Comments

State is being given unprecendented snooping powers

Commenting on the warning by the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, that people are in danger of ‘sleepwalking’ into a surveillance society, Liberal Democrat Leader, Ming Campbell said: This report confirms our worst fears. Bit by bit a surveillance state is …

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Liberal Democrat councils are showing the way forward on the environment (video)

Ming Campbell discusses his visit last Thursday to Beddington Zero (Fossil) Energy Development in Sutton (a.k.a. BedZED), as well as Sutton’s travel policies and the Liberal Democrats Green Tax Switch. You can see the local paper’s report on Ming’s visit …

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