Liberal Democrats: Recent Episodes
Liberal Democrats
British political party in government working to build a stronger economy in a fairer society.
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Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: “We are going to do so much better than anybody thinks. I’ve seen it for myself in seats across the country these last few weeks.
“There’s a momentum building behind our candidates in those seats where we are there in numbers, getting our message across loudly and proudly.”
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has said that voters have the biggest political decision of their life to make in Thursday's General Election. The Liberal Democrats will ensure stability, decency and unity in a future government.
In a speech in Cardiff, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has warned that Britain could face a second General Election before Christmas, if a stable government is not formed following Thursday's election.
Britain faces a second General Election before Christmas without Liberal Democrats to provide stability in coalition, Nick Clegg has warned.
Nick said it would be impossible for a minority government to pass key legislation without signing off controversial concessions to the nationalists and Nigel Farage.
Britain faces a second General Election before Christmas without Liberal Democrats to provide stability in coalition, Nick Clegg has warned.
Nick said it would be impossible for a minority government to pass key legislation without signing off controversial concessions to the nationalists and Nigel Farage.
Whilst at a campaign rally in Southwark today Nick Clegg passionately described how only a vote for the Liberal Democrats will safeguard values of stability, decency and unity.
The Conservatives have not outlined how they will fund the NHS nor where their punitive welfare cuts will fall. Only the Liberal Democrats have a costed plan to give the NHS the £8bn it needs and create a fairer society for those who need it most.
With each passing day, David Cameron and Ed Miliband are trying to pull the wool over people's eyes, pretending that they will win a majority when it is clear that they will not, explains Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
It is clear that no party will win a majority, says Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Only the Liberal Democrats are giving the British public the clearest and most candid offer regarding what compromises will have to be made.
Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg outlines four of the party's red lines for government: raising the personal tax allowance to £12,500; investing £8bn in the NHS and introducing mental health maximum waiting times; protecting the education budget and balancing the books fairly.
Setting out the Liberal Democrat red line on health, Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg explains that the party will not enter a coalition government unless it introduces maximum waiting times for mental health services as part of a plan to give the NHs £8bn a year by 2020.
Any coalition government with the Liberal Democrats must commit to investing the £8bn a year by 2020 in the NHS – the amount that doctors say it needs for the future.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg says the Conservatives cannot pull the wool over the British public's eyes over welfare cuts.
Nick says the Conservatives should explain who will have their benefits cuts and which families in Britain will suffer.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg calls for the Conservatives to come clean on how they plan to make welfare cuts.
The Liberal Democrats have delivered the biggest set of tax cuts in generation for working people, cutting taxes for millions of people by £825.
The Liberal Democrats are making increasing the Personal Allowance to £12,500 a ‘red line’ for any coalition negotiation.
That way the British public know that no matter the colour of the government, if the Liberal Democrats are a part of it, their taxes will be cut.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg explains the three principles of the Liberal Democrats red line on raising the personal tax allowance to £12,500 by the end of the next Parliament.
In government Liberal Democrats have delivered free school meals for all reception class, year one and year two pupils in England. Our manifesto plans include going further and extending the scheme to all primary school pupils in England. Free school meals help save parents money, help boost standards in schools and a healthy lunch is good for the health of our children.
Liberal Democrats in government have delivered free school meals for all reception class, year one and year two pupils in England. Our manifesto plans include extending it to all primary school pupils in England. Nick Clegg explains how the scheme is win, win, win - by helping children to concentrate in class, save parents money and boost standards.
Nick Clegg has set out a stability budget red line. The three principles of it are: 1) Setting out a clear timetable and plan for balancing the books. 2) Making sure that this plan is not done off the backs of the poorest. 3) Asking those with the broadest shoulders to make extra contributions to help balance the books.
Liberal Democrats will not enter a coalition with any party that does not agree to protect education funding. By setting education as a red line, any government with the Liberal Democrats must increase spending on nurseries, schools and colleges. Liberal Democrats want to protect per pupil funding from nursery to 19, in real terms, by the end of the parliament.
This would amount to £5.2bn more funding than is planned by the Conservatives and £2.5bn more than Labour.
Nick Clegg explains how the Liberal Democrats would not enter into a coalition unless a new stability budget was introduced within the first 50 days of the next Parliament.
Our economic recovery is underway but still quite fragile. The worst thing would be a lurch to the left of the right would jeapordise our recovery. That's why Liberal Democrats have set a red line for any potential coalition negotiations to introduce a stability budget within the first 50 days of the next Parliament setting out when we will balance the budget and how we will do it in a fair way. It will establish early on in the next Parliament of how we manage our economy.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has set out an economic 'red line' for potential coalition negotiations. Nick said that the Liberal Democrats would insist that a stability budget would be introduced within the first 50 days of the next Parliament
The Liberal Democrats will bring stability to a future government. A vote for hapless minority administrations of minority Labour or Conservative governments would threaten our recovery.
With Liberal Democrats you can have sound, strong, fair government serving the country as a whole. The last thing we need as a country is a BluKip alliance where the Conservatives lurch to the right or a lurch to the left where the SNP call the shots over a Labour government.
Nick Clegg explains how only the Liberal Democrats can provide stability to a future government. Liberal Democrats will govern in a sound, sensible manner and act in the best interests of the whole of the nation.
Nick Clegg warns of the that Britain may be sleepwalking into a right-wing Government. He said the Conservatives could be held to ransom by parties of the extreme right, risking Britain's economic recovery further.
The Conservatives want to balance the books on the backs of the most vulnerable. Their plans to make £12bn in welfare cuts would be at a cost of £1500 to 8m of the most vulnerable families. The Liberal Democrats will balance the books in a way that is fair.
The IFS has said the Liberal Democrats are the most transparent party when it comes to public spending plans. The Liberal Democrats have been the most open in setting out how their fiscal plans for the next Parliament. The analysis calls the Conservatives plans "misleading" and notes that Labour provide very little information on borrowing. The Liberal Democrats will finish the job of economic recovery and finish it fairly. We will borrow less than Labour and cut less than the Conservatives.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg discusses the party's plans to guarantee public sector pay increases by at least the rate of inflation. Nick Clegg said public sector workers deserve to see light at the end of the tunnel after five years of pay restraint and to feel the benefits of economic recovery.
Speaking on LBC Emer O'Neill CEO of Depression Alliance said: Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems have been absolutely promoting parity of esteem, more effective services, earlier intervention services which has been fantastic and this is such as win win this one because we want to support people to hold on to their jobs, we want to support people get into jobs, we want to support employers to know what to do, part of the issue is that employers are just left feeling frightened
The Italians are at the front line of this. We need to listen to Italians and work with them to take a collective EU decision. We are a nation that believes in treating people with dignity and compassion, we believe in humanitarian values. What is happening in the Mediterranean is clearly unacceptable to anyone who believes in the basic dignity of some of the most vulnerable people in the world. We have to make sure the EU enters into a relationship that is sustainable. We need to have a long, hard, collective think about what the best arrangements are.
Only the Liberal Democrats can secure a balanced and fair Britain. Listen here to why a #libdem vote will make a difference and find out more at www.libdems.org.uk
In order to create opportunity for everyone we must invest in education. That's why we will protect the education budget from cradle to college. #GE2015
Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that Benjamin Netanyahu's promise not to agree to the creation of an independent Palestinian state is "alarming." Speaking on his weekly radio show on LBC, Nick described the Israeli prime minister's election pledge as "extremely worrying".