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Menzies Campbell: Nasty, brutish and refusing to go away

As leaked documents tell of 109,000 violent deaths in five years, will the war’s supporters finally admit they were wrong?

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Think again before Trident is all at sea

B ritain is engaged in a strategic defence review. Nothing, we are told, is off the table. So precarious is our economic position that tradition and nostalgia must be put to the sword. But then there is Trident, whose capital cost is about £20bn, and …

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Leading the fight against climate change

Ming Campbell has written an article for the Liberal Democrat Voice website on the issue of climate change: The role of our Party on this issue has always been to lead the way and we will continue to do so. …

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A rescue plan for politics

Writing in The Guardian newspaper today, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell argues the case for a written constitution for the United Kingdom. Ming is calling for a constitutional convention at least 50% of which would be made up of members …

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Guardian: “Lib Dems are right on Iraq”

Writing in today’s Guardian, Polly Toynbee, who discussed the issue of Iraq with Ming Campbell yesterday, declares the Liberal Democrats “right, right and right again about the Iraq war”. The Liberal Democrat leader, Menzies Campbell, wrote to Gordon Brown yesterday: …

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