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Tory human rights proposals confused and contradictory

Responding to the announcement that the the Conservatives would seek to replace the Human Rights Act with a US-style Bill of Rights should they win the next election, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell said: David Cameron appears confused. In one …

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Ming Campbell MP and Ed Davey MP discuss energy policy (podcast)

June 20, 2006: Ming Campbell MP and Ed Davey MP discuss energy policy and the environment during their return from visiting Woking’s Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Plant and Woking Park Fuel Cell. You can sign up for their podcast …

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Where will Blair hide the nuclear tax bombshell?

June 20, 2006: Ming Campbell outlined the Liberal Democrats’ opposition to a new generation of nuclear power stations and then went on to visit a Combined Heat & Power Plant in Woking. If you would like to hear a live …

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Micro–management by politicians from Whitehall is inefficient and ineffective.

Liberalism has always been and should be about enterprise, competition, free trade and open markets. I am part of that tradition whose economic liberalism, of course, we have to balance with a concern for the environmental impact of economic activity, …

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“Guantanamo Bay remains an outrage”

Commenting on the suicide of three inmates at the US base at Guantanamo, Ming Campbell MP, said: These deaths tragically underline the damage that Guantanamo Bay does to the reputation of the United States and its allies. Those who are …

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