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Agenda and Directory Liberal Democrat Spring Conference 7Th - 9Th March 2008 Liverpool Dear Nick, POSTCARD It Was Great to Meet up the Other Day Agenda and Directory Liberal Democrat Spring Conference 7th - 9th March 2008 Liverpool Dear Nick, POSTCARD It was great to meet up the other day. I’m so pleased you’re out and about seeing what our Lib Dem councillors are Nick Clegg MP doing for their residents day-in, day-out. Leader of the Many thanks, look forward Liberal Democrats to seeing you in Liverpool, House of Commons LONDON Leader of the Lib Dems in the Local Government Association SW1A 0AA Friday 7 March, 8-9.15pm Local Elections Briefing Hall 3, Conference Centre Saturday 8 March, 6.15-7.30pm Friday 7 March, 10.00pm Save our Post Offices Local Government Reception - Sarah Teather MP featuring The Council Group Hall 3, Conference Centre of the Year Awards. Baroness Ros Scott, Saturday 8 March, Cllr Richard Kemp (Liverpool), 6.15-7.30pm Julia Goldsworthy MP, “Mummy, I want to be a Princes Suite, Crowne Plaza councillor when I grow up” Cllr Cathy Bakewell (Somerset), Saturday 8 March, 1-2pm Steve Hitchins (Leadership Centre) Councils that are tackling Hall 1, Conference Centre Climate Change Mayor Dorothy Thornhill Saturday 8 March, 8-9.15pm (Watford), Steve Webb MP 2008 & 2012: transformation Hall 1, Conference Centre through culture - Liverpool, Beijing and London Saturday 8 March, 1-2pm Cllr Flo Clucas, Cllr Mike Storey, Food Miles and Food Markets Cllr Chris White (Herts) Tim Farron MP Hall 1, Conference Centre Hall 3, Conference Centre Saturday 8 March, 8-9.15pm Saturday 8 March, 1-2pm Leadership Centre Reception: Leadership Centre and the Next Generation and more Next Generation Julia Goldsworthy MP, Cllr Paul Massey (Cheltenham), Tim Farron MP, Joe Simpson, Cllr Gareth Kane (Newcastle) Cllr Erica Kemp (Liverpool) Hall 2, Conference Centre Princes 2, Crowne Plaza www.lga.gov.uk/libdemgroup Contents Feature Services to the blind and Features: Welcome to Spring Conference visually impaired by Nick Clegg MP 3 Liverpool – European Capital of Culture by Chris Rennard 4 Friday Copies of the Conference Engaging more members Agenda and Directory and by Jeremy Hargreaves 5 other conference documents Sponsors and advertisers 6 Agenda: can be made available on Agenda index 6 Saturday request in alternative Friday 7th March 7 formats. Saturday 8th March 8 Sunday 9th March 21 Conference fringe guide and diary: 25–32 Please contact Emma Harris, Friday fringe 26 Sunday [email protected] Saturday fringe 27 or 020 7227 1350, by Tuesday Sunday fringe 31 2008 Conference timetable 31 19th February. Conference diary 31–32 Fringe Exhibition 33–36 Information: Conference venue plans 37 Conference information 38 Access and facilities for disabled people 47 Diary Transport and travel 48 For conference details and Standing orders 49–56 registration online, please see Federal Party 56 www.libdems.org.uk/conference. Map of Liverpool city centre inside back cover Exhibition Information www.libdems.org.uk Design and layout by Mike Cooper, 25 Orchard Road, Sutton, SM1 2QA. Published by Conference Office, Printed by DSR Print Management Ltd, Scirocco Close, Moulton Park, Liberal Democrats, Orders Standing Northampton, NN3 6HE. 4 Cowley Street, Front cover photo: © LDPics 2008. London, SW1P 3NB. Printed on recycled paper ISBN 1-85187-780-5 The Federal Conference Committee is here to serve you! If you need to find any of the members of the FCC over the weekend, you should be able easily to identify them by the larger white background badge holder with the purple FCC badge inside. Here are the members of the Federal Conference Committee. Duncan Brack, Chair, Ruth Polling, Vice Andrew Wiseman, directly elected Chair Communications, Vice Chair Finance, directly elected English rep Directly elected: Robert Adamson Jon Ball Catherine Bearder Sal Brinton Dee Doocey Gareth Epps Sue Garden Arnie Gibbons Chris Maines Justine McGuinness James Gurling Tessa Munt Jeremy Hargreaves Geoff Payne Debra Storr FE rep FE & FFAC rep FPC rep FPC rep Scottish rep Ex officio: Paul Burstow MP, Chief Whip. Ed Davey MP, CCC Chair. Simon Hughes MP, Party President. Chris Rennard, Chief Executive. Ian Walton Andrew Reeves, Chris Jennings, Welsh Rep Staff rep Chief Steward, Trust in peopleco-opted 2 Liberal Democrat Conference Spring 2008 Welcome to Spring Conference Feature By Nick Clegg MP This conference will represent I’m delighted that once again at this a number of firsts. The first conference we are the party facing up For me there conference we have held as to some crucial issues that face us as a a party in Liverpool, the first nation, from health and education is no better policy to ballistic missile defence. This conference we have ever held in weekend is our chance to set the city in which a European Capital of Culture and political agenda once again. my first conference as your party to attend leader. And I’m hugely looking It is also a chance for us to lay a platform my first forward to it. for the elections in May. With Brian Paddick as our excellent candidate for conference as For me there is no better city in which to London Mayor, and committed attend my first conference as leader. campaigners and councillors up and leader. Liverpool is a city with a proud Liberal down the country, we have an excellent and Liberal Democrat history. And our opportunity to take a major step achievements in Liverpool are not just forward. historic – Warren Bradley and his team are leading an impressive effort to I look forward to meeting many of you, regenerate this great city, spearheaded both this weekend and out on the by what is already a highly successful campaign trail over the coming months. year as the European Capital of Culture. It is also a city where we have a golden I hope you all have a thoroughly opportunity to deliver new Liberal enjoyable conference, Democrat MPs to parliament at the next election. I’ve set out my clear goal to double our number of MPs over the next two General Elections. This is an ambitious Nick Clegg MP target. But I am confident that we can Leader of the Liberal Democrats do it. With that new generation of Liberal Democrat MPs we can turn Britain into a liberal country again. It will take hard work and dedication from all of us – something I know we can deliver. For my part, I’ve been focusing on the real issues that affect people in what I say in Parliament and the media – schools, hospitals, the environment, rising bills, economic insecurity. More importantly, I’ve been spending as 2008 © LDPics much time as possible out of Westminster listening to people’s views in countless visits, Town Hall meetings and other public events. Nick Clegg with Cllr Warren Bradley, Leader of Liverpool City Council, meeting Merseyside Police. A new politics for Britain Conference Agenda and Directory 3 Feature Liverpool – European Capital of Culture By Chris Rennard Some people ask in politics if one Scousers across the world (and there are person can make a difference. many of us!) jumped for joy when Liverpool won. We wanted to see 2008 One person made a huge difference to as the year when many of the prejudices Liverpool nearly ten years ago when he we perceive against Liverpool could be fished a letter out of a pile of ‘things to overcome. Of course, the city has say no to’. Mike Storey was the Lib Dem problems. But the regeneration of the Leader of Liverpool City Council at the city in the ten years since the Liberal time. He combined this with a full-time Democrats won back control of the job as headteacher of a 600-strong council has been remarkable and will be primary school just outside the city much in evidence over the weekend of boundary. Some of his paperwork had our Spring Conference. to be dealt with sitting with council officers in the back of a car as he was The Capital of Culture year will be a driven backwards and forwards great celebration and help Liverpool between city centre council meetings look positively to the future – and we Chris Rennard is Chief and his school. hope everyone else will feel more Executive of the Liberal positive about the city. Democrats. A letter in the pile of things officers assumed that he would reject was an The contrast between our invitation to bid for Liverpool to administration over the last ten years become European Capital of Culture (now led by Warren Bradley) and 2008. ‘Why not bid? We need to make Labour’s previous fifteen years of the case for Liverpool,’ was Mike’s control is remarkable. Labour left the approach and Liverpool’s bid city with the highest council tax in the succeeded. country and an appalling record of failing services. Liverpool is still Chris Rennard (Lord Rennard of struggling to put things right after Wavertree) began his political career Labour’s legacy (which included Derek in his home city of Liverpool and his Hatton’s reign of terror). first by-election campaign was Edge Hill in 1979. He was election agent to If you have any spare time over the The Capital of the first Liberal Councillor in weekend of the Conference (or at any Liverpool (and former Party other time!) to help the Liverpool Lib Culture year President) Cyril Carr and to David Dems, then please do let them know! Alton when he was first elected as The city still has five Labour MPs and will be a great Liberal MP for Mossley Hill. they are doing everything they can to remove our majority on the council. celebration Chris learned much from Liverpool’s Email Colin Eldridge, PPC for Liverpool and help Councillor Sir Trevor ‘Jones the vote’, Wavertree: [email protected], who led the City Council between or call Tom Morrison on 07779 144334.
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