Liberal Democrats must display a radical, reforming zeal to help to give more power to people, not government – to communities, not bureaucracies.
Friday, January 13th, 2006Ming’s article was published in the Times on January 13, 2005
We live in a time of constant, restless change. Consolidation and caution will not be an adequate response, either for our country or for the Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democracy cannot be a struggle between those who wish to modernise and those who do not. To be a Liberal Democrat is to be a moderniser. I believe that the central task of the Liberal Democrats today is to understand the forces that are likely to shape Britain in the years to come and act upon them.
