Local MP Tim Farron spoke up for health services in Morecambe Bay during a debate at the Liberal Democrats' Spring Conference in Harrogate. Tim was speaking on his amendment to a policy motion about deficits in the NHS.
Sir Menzies Campbell, the newly elected federal leader of the Liberal Democrats today (Sunday 5th March) gave a rousing address to the party's Spring Federal Conference in Harrogate, spelling out his platform for taking the party forward.
5 March 2006
Official figures show that same-sex couples have registered 3,648 civil partnerships in England and Wales in the space of two months, since same-sex partnerships became legally recognised in December 2005.
Addressing the Liberal Democrats' Spring Conference the new leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, said he wants to create a fairer society. He thought that there had been too much attention on the policy of a 50% top tax rate, a policy scrapped after last year's election, but he would cut taxes for the poor without increasing the overall burden.
Ming Campbell has been elected as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, taking over from Charles Kennedy.
