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Campbell urges Brown to be bold and radical on constitutional reform

Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell has published proposals for a comprehensive programme of constitutional reform. Ming Campbell, who wrote to Gordon Brown at the start of Brown’s leadership campaign calling on him to take up the cause of reform, urged …

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Campbell comments on Brown’s offer to Shirley Williams

Ming Campbell has reiterated that Liberal Democrats will not accept seats in Gordon Brown’s Government following the latest approach to a Liberal Democrat by Gordon Brown. Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams has been invited to advise the new Prime Minister …

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Attorney General politically inept over BAE Systems

Ming Campbell has accused the Attorney General of political ineptitude over the information given to the OECD regarding BAE systems. The Liberal Democrat Leader today received a letter from the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, regarding the affair. Commenting, Menzies Campbell …

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Campbell sets out plans for a million new affordable homes by 2020

Today, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ming Campbell said Britain needed a revolution in housing. He unveiled proposals for building one million new socially rented, affordable and low cost homes by 2020. Delivering the Chamberlain Lecture at a Joseph Rowntree …

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Blair’s government should be ashamed of child poverty figures

Commenting on a study on child poverty by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies which shows a higher incidence in children from single parent families and ethnic minorities, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell said: “These figures should be a source of …

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