Wednesday, March 08, 2006
MING CAMPBELL'S SPEECH
THE NEW LEADER IN HARROGATE, MARCH, '06
Ming Campbell MP began his leadership by saying the Liberal Democrats have “many dazzling achievements still to come.” In his speech closing the Spring Conference, he said the country needed a distinct liberal democratic party and that politics under New Labour had become “managerial, not inspirational.” He also endorsed the findings of the Power Inquiry saying that we needed “a shift away from the executive back to Parliament, and from central to local government.” He said we need to wage a war on poverty and to protect civil liberties from the illiberal laws of the Labour government“. “Our alternative is clear,” he said, “a greener, fairer, decentralised and democratic Britain – a Britain at peace with itself at home and admired abroad.”# posted by John Beanse @ 4:50 PM 
