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The impact of Boundary Changes | 16/02/12

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Psephology, the scientific analysis of elections, is often viewed as an intellectual folly, with very little practical impact on the ground....Read More

The beginning of the end for the Health & Social Care Bill? | 10/02/12

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Later this year my younger brother will complete his degree in medicine. At the same time, in a wonderful moment of symmetry, our father will retire from the NHS after 35 years. ...Read More

Private v. Public in the NHS – isn’t it time the debate grew up? | 28/12/11

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Yesterday’s reports that a recently proposed amendment to the Health & Social Care Bill could see National Health Service foundation hospitals allowed to raise nearly half of their funding through private work have generated predictably stormy responses....Read More

Health and Social Care- Parliamentary Round Up- November 2011 | 29/10/11

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Column by Will Davies which appeared in the November edition of the English Community Care Association (ECCA) member's newsletter....Read More

PLMR at the Liberal Democrat Conference: A Party punching above its weight? | 20/09/11

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If anyone needed an indication of just how radically life has changed for the Liberal Democrats they need only look at the police barricades and airport style security surrounding the party’s conference in Birmingham this year....Read More

Guest blog by Elaine Bagshaw - Lib Dem Conference: Growing in to Government | 19/09/11

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Guest blog post from Liberal Democrat Party Conference 2011 by Elaine Bagshaw, Member of Liberal Democrat Federal Executive and former Chair of Liberal Youth...Read More

Will the Coalition Stay the Course – I am for the first time not so sure | 27/04/11

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I am increasingly revisiting my, hitherto cast iron, certainty on whether the Coalition will make it until the end of this Parliament....Read More

The AV campaigns: Politicking at its worst | 21/04/11

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Despite promises to “fix our broken political system” in the wake of the expenses scandal, the conduct of the respective AV campaigns has shown that for all the fine words, little progress has been made....Read More