Whose reform?
During its annual conference, the Liberal Democratic Party faithful told their leader, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, that Conservative plans for reform of the National Health Service were not okay. The politics of coalition government, it seems, are messier than "normal" politics.BTW, do your students know the people and the policies associated with them identified by Clegg as the ancestors of the Liberal Democrats?
Nick Clegg suffers defeat as Liberal Democrats reject health reforms
Nick Clegg [above] suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of his own party as Liberal Democrat activists voted overwhelmingly against coalition plans for a radical overhaul of the NHS.
Delegates rejected the "damaging and unjustified market-based approach" being championed by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley [Conservative Party], as anger over the Tory-led NHS agenda boiled over at the party's spring conference in Sheffield…
After the crushing defeat, Clegg immediately faced demands from former education secretary Shirley Williams that he take the message back to the cabinet and demand that Lansley change the NHS bill to conform with Lib Dem demands.
In an interview with the Observer, Williams, a ringleader behind the revolt, said: "It means that Nick Clegg has to go back to Lansley with the other Lib Dem members of the cabinet and say, 'I can't get this through my party. We will have to make amendments'."…
Nick Clegg tells Lib Dems they belong in 'radical centre' of British politics
Nick Clegg has told Liberal Democrat delegates they are now the party of the "radical centre", hours after the party voted to commit itself to the traditions and beliefs of social democracy…
Clegg said: "We are liberals and we own the freehold to the centre ground of British politics. Our politics is the politics of the radical centre. We are governing from the middle, for the middle…
"We are not the heirs to Thatcher. We are not the heirs to Blair. We are the heirs to Mill, Lloyd George, Keynes, Beveridge, Grimond. We are the true radicals of British politics."…
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