The Liberal Democrats’ final annual party conference before next May’s General Election was, against all preconceptions, a buoyant festival of strong ideas and policy suggestions. Jonathan Werran reports
One of the less heralded consequences of last month’s Scottish independence referendum vote was that the Liberal Democrat’s annual conference, held, rather fittingly, in Glasgow last week, came atypically last in the order of the major political parties.
That the Lib Dems remain firm coalition partners with the Conservative Party so close to the May 2015 General Election runs against the received wisdom of many politically pundits.
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