This means that national and local decision making, policies and interventions will only take place after the full impact on people’s mental and physical health has been fully assessed. Decades of incompetence, cruelty and hostile rhetoric from Labour and Conservative Home Secretaries have shattered confidence in the system. And former Labour and Conservative MPs have joined us because they know that we want to build an open, fair and inclusive society. Make immigration detention an absolute last resort, introduce a 28-day time limit on detention and close seven of the UK’s nine detention centres. Michael Fry (1988). Expand the activities of the British Business Bank, enabling it to perform a more central role in the economy by tackling the shortage of equity capital for growing firms and providing long-term capital for medium-sized businesses. Businesses and entrepreneurs who innovate and invest and behave responsibly to their employees and to the environment should be supported. We will also give extra training to teachers who are required to teach subjects at secondary level where they themselves do not have a post A-level qualification. Pursue a foreign agenda with gender equality at its heart, focusing on: the transformation of the position of women through economic inclusion, education and training; ensuring the lives of women and girls are not ignored in favour of trade or regional alliances; working to extend reproductive rights and end female genital mutilation; and ending sexual violence in conflict zones. Ensure that all universities work to widen participation by disadvantaged and underrepresented groups across the sector, prioritising their work with students in schools and colleges, and require every university to be transparent about selection criteria. Reform criminal record disclosure rules so that people do not have to declare irrelevant old and minor convictions, and remove questions about criminal convictions from initial application forms for all public-sector jobs. Historically, the aristocracy was divided between Conservatives and Liberals. Lloyd George called for the party to leave the National government but only a few MPs and candidates followed. We will oversee a substantial building programme to ensure that everybody has a safe and secure home and we will make the rental market more affordable and secure. Under the Conservatives our NHS and social care services are in a state of crisis. To combat the harm done by drugs, we will: Our approach will support and encourage more clinical trials of cannabis for medicinal use to establish a clear evidence base. But this is sadly beyond the reach of too many people: life has become unaffordable. Our plan is to build thriving communities which are innovative, flexible, resilient and prepared for the future. [48], Asquith's Liberal government was brought down in May 1915, due in particular to a crisis in inadequate artillery shell production and the protest resignation of Admiral Fisher over the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign against Turkey. Our plan is to reform British politics to make it more representative and empower citizens. Promoting greater diversity in the criminal justice system by ensuring that the police, prison service and judiciary all adopt ambitious targets for improving the diversity of their workforce and requiring regular reports on progress to parliament. We are committed to a responsible and realistic £130 billion package of additional infrastructure investment, which will prioritise: We will ensure that the National Infrastructure Commission takes fully into account the climate and environmental implications of all national infrastructure decisions. The one significant reunification came in 1946 when the Liberal and Liberal National party organisations in London merged. They promised to restore the natural environment, but have presided over declines in many species of wildlife, and repeatedly failed to meet air and water quality goals. Our plan is for a free society where every person’s rights and liberties are protected and where the contribution of migrants to our society is celebrated. The Liberals as expressed in the Liberal Yellow Book now regarded opposition to state intervention as being a characteristic of right-wing extremists. Expanding the number of refuges and rape crisis centres to meet demand. Create a new two-year visa for students to work after graduation. Labour’s approach is no better: their plan for the NHS is a backward-looking, top-down reorganisation which would leave it in chaos. At the same time, the achievement gap between richer and poorer, which can best be tackled in the early years, is rising. Appoint an Ambassador-level Champion for Freedom of Belief. We also know that children cannot learn properly if they are undernourished. However, changes in technology and the nature of employment have outgrown the existing system of employment rights and protections. Devolve powers over youth justice, probation services, prisons and policing to allow Wales to create an effective, liberal, community-based approach to policing and tackling crime. Protect sports and arts funding via the National Lottery. We campaigned to stay in the EU in 2016 and we unequivocally believe that the UK is stronger as part of the EU. Giving asylum seekers the right to work three months after they have applied and resettling 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children in the UK over the next ten years. Establish a legal right to food to enshrine in law the government’s responsibility to ensure that existing and new public policy is audited for its impact on food security. Liberal Democrats will ensure that we continue to invest in our cultural capital. In 2012 I produced a book profiling the pioneering female broadcasters whose work had been ignored by historians. Develop a strategy to tackle childhood obesity including restricting the marketing of junk food to children, and closing loopholes in the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. A good opportunity for Labour and the Liberal Democrats to make gains. Support growth in the creative industries, including video gaming, by continuing to support the Creative Industries Council and tailored industry-specific tax support, promoting creative skills, supporting modern and flexible patent, copyright and licensing rules, and addressing the barriers to finance faced by small creative businesses. Carers are unsung heroes; we need to do more to help them. William Ewart Gladstone served as prime minister four times (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, and 1892–94). Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy. Introduce a nationwide strategy to promote walking and cycling, including the creation of dedicated safe cycling lanes, increasing spending per head five-fold to reach 10 per cent of the transport budget. Appoint a Minister for Wellbeing, who will make an annual statement to Parliament on the main measures of wellbeing and the effects of government policies on them. Down to the 1830s, Dissenters demanded removal of political and civil disabilities that applied to them (especially those in the Test and Corporation Acts). By working together with our European neighbours, we increase the UK’s ability to meet those challenges: for example, in international negotiations, in regulating the tech giants or in creating markets for climate-friendly products. However, when Gladstone committed to home rule for Ireland, Britain's upper classes largely abandoned the Liberal party, giving the Conservatives a large permanent majority in the House of Lords. While the SDP–Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes (a share of more than 25%), it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209. It is true that man cannot live by bread alone. We will: Liberal Democrats want to take advantage of historically low interest rates to increase borrowing for investment to build the economy of the future. Invest in mobile data infrastructure and expand it to cover all homes. We will: Arts, media and sports are essential for personal fulfilment and quality of life – they enlarge people’s experience and are part of what turns a group of people into a community. Immigration policy should also be flexible enough to ensure that both the catching and processing sectors have access to the labour they need. Help young people into the rental market by establishing a new Help to Rent scheme to provide government-backed tenancy deposit loans for all first-time renters under 30. Protect the independence of the BBC and set up a BBC Licence Fee Commission, maintain Channel 4 in public ownership and protect the funding and editorial independence of Welsh language broadcasters. Irish nationalist reaction was mixed, Unionist opinion was hostile, and the election addresses during the 1886 election revealed English radicals to be against the bill also. Our plan for mental health prioritises early intervention to prevent people from experiencing a mental health crisis and to minimise the number and duration of in-patient stays. In the 1929 general election, he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called We Can Conquer Unemployment!, largely written for him by the Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes. Craig, Frederick Walter Scott, ed. Support the Armed Forces Covenant and ongoing work to support veterans’ mental health. New Vancouver party called A Better City launched, as Liberal strategist Mark Marissen plans run for mayor . For the party formed by the 1988 merger with the SDP, see, Lloyd George as a Liberal heading a Conservative coalition, Alliance, Liberal Democrats and reconstituted Liberal Party, Deputy Leaders of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons, Deputy Leaders of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords, Franchise extended to all 18- to 20-year-olds under the. We will: Liberal Democrats believe that in the diversity of the UK should be represented in public and working life. Increase minimum energy efficiency standards for privately rented properties and remove the cost cap on improvements. The political strength of Dissent faded sharply after 1920 with the secularisation of British society in the 20th century. We will improve the railways, reform the franchising system and improve services to customers. Raise £7 billion a year additional revenue which will be ring-fenced to be spent only on NHS and social care services. Many Conservatives (including Winston Churchill) had recently protested against high tariff moves by the Conservatives by switching to the anti-tariff Liberal camp, but it was unclear how many old Conservative traits they brought along, especially on military and naval issues. Require binding and public votes of shareholders on executive pay policies. The Third Reform Act also facilitated the demise of the Whig old guard: in two-member constituencies, it was common to pair a Whig and a radical under the Liberal banner. Campbell-Bannerman was able to rally the party around the traditional liberal platform of free trade and land reform and led them to the greatest election victory in their history. [29], The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of New Liberalism within the Liberal Party, which advocated state intervention as a means of guaranteeing freedom and removing obstacles to it such as poverty and unemployment. Work to end the use of torture around the world and conduct a full inquiry into the UK Government’s involvement in torture and rendition. Develop a scheme to reward employers who invest in the mental wellbeing of their employees, piloting reduced business rates for employers who support employees’ mental wellbeing and provide mental health first aid training to staff. [80] The Tories tended to be in favour of these Acts and so the Nonconformist cause was linked closely to the Whigs, who advocated civil and religious liberty. The 1906 general election also represented a shift to the left by the Liberal Party. We will provide support for innovation to cut energy and fossil fuel use in industrial processes – reducing emissions, cutting dependence on fossil fuel imports and generating jobs and prosperity. The Conservatives, having unnecessarily cut police funding in England and Wales, are now trying to seem tough on crime without actually doing what is needed to prevent it. [34], Although still partially informed by older Liberal concerns for character, self-reliance, and the capitalist market, this legislation nevertheless, marked a significant shift in Liberal approaches to the state and social reform, approaches that later governments would slowly expand and that would grow into the welfare state after the Second World War. Ramsay MacDonald was forced into a snap election in 1924 and although his government was defeated he achieved his objective of virtually wiping the Liberals out as many more radical voters now moved to Labour whilst moderate middle-class Liberal voters concerned about socialism moved to the Conservatives. The party was saved after Salisbury's retirement in 1902 when his successor, Arthur Balfour, pushed a series of unpopular initiatives such as the Education Act 1902 and Joseph Chamberlain called for a new system of protectionist tariffs. To ensure that EU citizens are not denied their vote in any election or referendum, we will also implement urgent electoral law reform, in line with the Electoral Commission’s 2014 recommendations, including introducing a legal requirement for councils to inform citizens of the steps they must take to be successfully registered and making the necessary changes to ensure that the UK has an automatic system of inclusion in elections. There was no more planning for world peace or liberal treatment of Germany, nor discomfit with aggressive and authoritarian measures of state power. That’s not good enough. Gladstone brought the majority of Dissenters around to support for Home Rule for Ireland, putting the dissenting Protestants in league with the Irish Roman Catholics in an otherwise unlikely alliance. We will ensure they are paid a fair wage, and can focus on teaching rather than unnecessary, bureaucratic tests and inspections. Abolish the bedroom tax and introduce positive incentives for people to downsize. Liberal Democrats will vote to scrap Mayor role. We believe that our best future as a country is as a member of the European Union. In their resistance to Home Rule the Ulster Protestants had the full support of the Conservatives, whose leader, Bonar Law, was of Ulster-Scots descent. Along with Roy Jenkins, she talked more sense, and brought in more liberal … Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates—this "coupon", as it became known, was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself. Help people who cannot afford a deposit by introducing a new Rent to Own model for social housing where rent payments give tenants an increasing stake in the property, owning it outright after 30 years. Introduce further mental health maximum waiting time standards, starting with children’s services, services for people with eating disorders, and severe and enduring conditions. It must nurture not only academic excellence but also creativity, adaptability, and teamwork. Introduce a ‘somewhere safe to stay’ legal duty to ensure that everyone who is at risk of sleeping rough is provided with emergency accommodation and an assessment of their needs. Over the next Parliament, a Liberal Democrat government will invest £11 billion in mental health to expand access to therapies and increase the number of psychiatrists and specialist mental health practitioners. Jobs for the future, through further education and Skills Wallets. In 1940, they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years. They can choose what kind of country we are – open and generous, or closed and selfish. Our health and social care services’ greatest resource is their staff, but we know the NHS and social care workforce are subject to immense pressure, causing too many to leave. And instead of focusing on how we create a brighter future for everyone, our politics has been utterly dominated by Brexit. There is no doubt that full membership of the EU is good for the British economy. Promote longer tenancies of three years or more with an inflation-linked annual rent increase built in, to give tenants security and limit rent hikes. [73], David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled We Can Conquer Unemployment!, although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status. This will help to retain staff through more flexible working, so that we never again experience a shortage of the GPs, hospital doctors, dentists, nurses and other professionals that the NHS needs. We will increase teacher numbers by 20,000 and let them get on with their jobs, instead of worrying about budgeting for the basics. Campbell-Bannerman tried to keep these forces together at the head of a moderate Liberal rump, but in 1901 he delivered a speech on the government's "methods of barbarism" in South Africa that pulled him further to the left and nearly tore the party in two. Promote an international treaty on the principles and limits of the use of technology in modern warfare. The current voting system is not working: it means that too many people do not have their voices heard. Increase government expenditure on climate and environmental objectives, reaching at least five per cent of the total within five years. The difference between a free Government and a Government which is not free is principally this—that a Government which is not free interferes with everything it can, and a free Government interferes with nothing except what it must. Create a new Online Crime Agency to effectively tackle illegal content and activity online, such as personal fraud, revenge porn and threats and incitement to violence on social media. Work within the EU to ensure that future trade agreements require high environmental and animal welfare standards, and legislate to ban the importing of hunting trophies where the hunting does not contribute to environmental protection. We were staring into the economic abyss. Identify and seek to solve skills gaps such as the lack of advanced technicians by expanding higher vocational training like foundation degrees, Higher National Diplomas, Higher National Certificates and Higher Apprenticeships. We will take an evidence led approach to prevention, making it easier for people at risk to get the help they need, and equipping more members of the public with the skills and confidence to talk about suicide. [58], The last majority Liberal Government in Britain was elected in 1906. The Conservatives have promised to help, but their childcare policy only covers three- and four-year-olds in working families, only amounts to 30 hours a week – less time than children spend in school – and doesn’t cover school holidays. It risks potential delays to medicines, cancer tests, and treatments using radioisotopes. [32], After the historic 1906 victory, the Liberal Party introduced multiple reforms on range of issues, including health insurance, unemployment insurance, and pensions for elderly workers, thereby laying the groundwork for the future British welfare state. We will support farmers to protect and restore the natural environment alongside their critical roles in producing food, providing employment and promoting tourism, leisure and health and wellbeing. The pair fought for years over control of the party, badly weakening it in the process. A Liberal Democrat government will set up a new Skills Wallet for every adult, giving people £10,000 to spend on approved education and training courses to gain the right skills for the jobs of the future. An emergency ten-year programme to reduce energy consumption from all the UK’s buildings, cutting emissions and fuel bills and ending fuel poverty. Cuts have left hospitals and community facilities crumbling and struggling with overwhelming debts, and they have damaged the services that keep us healthy. The Liberals won a large majority in the 1880 election. Neither the Conservatives nor Labour have shown a commitment to this: the Conservative government in particular has spread chronic low morale, misspent money on vanity projects and failed to recruit and retain people with the skills needed for 21st century warfare. Replace Police and Crime Commissioners with accountable Police Boards made up of local councillors. Only the Liberal Democrats have a plan to renew international liberalism in Britain and ensure that the UK plays an active role in building a better world. Schools that build emotional resilience and properly prepare our children for both work and relationships. Remain firmly committed to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on aid, prioritising development that both helps the poorest and ties in with our strategic international objectives on gender equality, climate change and the environment, human rights, conflict prevention and tackling inequality. We will: Government must ensure the tax system meets the needs of a modern economy and is ready for the transition to a digital and zero-carbon economy. Liberal Democrats will build a brighter future for every one of our children. Now we can go further: we aim to decarbonise the power sector completely, supporting renewables and household and community energy to create jobs and cut fossil fuel imports. Published and promoted by Mike Dixon on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, 8-10 Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AE. Embarking on a radical redistribution of power away from Westminster to the nations, regions and local authorities, giving power to communities to hold local services to account and decide how their taxes are raised and spent. In the 1987 general election, the Alliance's share of the votes fell slightly and it now had 22 MPs. To promote animal welfare and prevent animal suffering, we will introduce stronger penalties for animal cruelty offences, clamp down on illegal pet imports, and Improve standards of animal health and welfare in agriculture. Fully fund an immediate two per cent pay-rise for police officers to support recruitment and retention, and future pay rises in line with recommendations from the independent Police Remuneration Review Body. 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