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Image Description: University Parks Michael O’Connor, a 1st year BPhil student at Balliol College, has been elected as Labour Councillor for the University Parks ward in the Oxfordshire County Council elections that took place on 6th May 2021. University Parks is a central Oxford division, covering the majority of Oxford University Colleges and some residential […]
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This general election is about three issues which will define our generation. We are faced with a global climate crisis that requires urgent action and leadership. We are on the brink of a Brexit which will damage the poorest and threatens the very existence of the United Kingdom. We find British politics in regression as […]
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Image description: Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats Famously dubbed the biggest electoral event that would definitely happen this year, the local elections have attracted a surprising homogeneity among the commentariat and wider media. “The Liberal Democrats are back.” I don’t know for how many hours I saw this spattered across Twitter in smug, […]
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Image Description: Leicester town hall, one of the mayoralties contested in the election The 2019 UK local elections have presented voters, election-watchers and newspaper pundits with an interesting set of results to pore over: from over 248 councils electing councillors on Thursday, the Conservatives have lost over 1200 councillors, with the main beneficiaries being the […]
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The Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon has released a statement on Twitter, detailing an incident in 2013 that involved her “slapping” her boyfriend at the time, amid a row over a computer cable. Moran noted her desire to respond to “rumours” that have recently begun to circulate over the altercation. This comes […]
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Note: the article that follows is a work of satire, and therefore should not be taken as factual Researchers at the University’s Department of Life Sciences have had a breakthrough in political biology, successfully instilling principles into a human being without compromising on its support for the Liberal Democrats. A highly complex mix of […]
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The last time we spoke to Layla Moran, she was a parliamentary candidate, busily fighting for a marginal seat in the 2015 general election. Despite an inspiring campaign backed by strong community support, it is fair to say that the legacy of the coalition government proved to be an obstacle in her path to representing […]
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The Oxford Union has announced an additional four speakers to their already hugely varied term card line up, including ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg. Details of the new speakers, and further confirmed times and dates, announced are below. To see the full details of the previously released events, go here. Nick Clegg – 30th […]
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Yes, Sarah Olney has done it. She has increased the number of Lib Dem MPs by 12.5% and become the party’s one-and-only female MP. Tim Farron is keen to make the most of this most public moment of Lib Dem success since Clegg’s first TV debate in 2010. Olney’s destruction of a 23,000 vote Tory […]
Continue ReadingThe events of this week tested the Liberal/Conservative coalition to its limit. Conservative politicians engineered an embarrassing defeat of their own Deputy Leader, Nick Clegg, and his poorly formulated Lords reform policy. Coalition government, this week, justified its existence. Coalition government’s most useful function is that of limiting political change, or, to use technical jargon, […]
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