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Blair should either resign or state a date

Commenting on speculation that Tony Blair will step down in a year, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ming Campbell, said: This is no longer a matter of the convenience of the Labour Party and the ambitions of its senior members. …

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Democracy can gain from connecting political thought with twenty first century technology

Ming Campbell addressed the launch of the ‘Taking Power‘ virtual conference as follows: Over the next few weeks, the UK’s political parties will descend on towns throughout the UK in order to hold their traditional autumn conferences. Political activists – …

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Virtual Conference to take power to the people

Today, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell and Liberal Democrat Peer, Paul Tyler, will launch a “virtual conference” with cross party support aimed at re-engaging people with the political process. Hundreds of people, particularly students, have already registered for the on-line …

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Leading the field

As part of the Edinburgh Festival’s Festival of Politics, you can watch Ming chat informally to Douglas Fraser, Scottish Political Editor of The Herald, about his life in politics, his vision for the Lib Dems, for Scotland and beyond via …

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The Government’s foreign policy is just plain wrong

Ming Campbell wrote today in the Observer as follows: The ceasefire in Lebanon is holding, if only by a thread, which makes it all the more unacceptable that there was so much reluctance on the part of the British government …

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