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• CREWE & Nantwich - Labour call Snap By-Election for May 22 . .
• Elizabeth Shenton on YouTube [May 05]
• STEPHEN Kearney: I will be a local MP for Henley . .
HENLEY Liberal Democrats have selected Stephen Kearney to be their candidate for the expected Henley by-election. Stephen Kearney, 49, is Chief Executive of Regenerate Community Trust, an international development charity that works in Africa and the UK. [libdems.org.uk, May 13]
• THE Henley Lib Dem Campaign HQ: Unit 9, Thame Business Park, Wenman Road, Thame OX9 3XA; tel: 0845 680 1131; email: info@henleylibdems.org.uk Leave the M40 at Exit 6 and go via the A40 and the B4012 to Thame. http://www.henleylibdems.org.uk/pages/henleyhq.html
• IS the Henley by election being planned for June? [PoliticalBetting.com, May 12]
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News [Parliamentary extracts are from theyworkforyou.com]:
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Fri 16th May 2008
Nicholas Clegg (Party Leader; Sheffield, Hallam, Liberal Democrat): Yesterday's announcement was a complete charade. The Government pretend to have solved the 10p problem when they have not, and the Conservatives seem only to be concerned about the effect on their chances in a by-election. How can they all ignore the fact that even after yesterday's announcement, more than 1 million of the poorest people in the country are still worse off? Do they not matter?
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Fri 16th May 2008
' . . Road-user pricing is probably the best long-term replacement, and my party supports that view. I shall not hold my breath, because I wrote essays on road-user pricing when I was an undergraduate 40 years ago, and it still is not with us. . . '
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Fri 16th May 2008
' . .The report also concludes that householders and small companies have seen no benefit from the opening up of Royal Mail to competition . . '
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Fri 16th May 2008
[May 15} Susan Kramer (Cabinet Office; Richmond Park, Liberal Democrat): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much he plans his Department will spend on extending the universal early years education entitlement to 15 hours per week in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
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Fri 16th May 2008
[May 15] Vincent Cable (Deputy Party Leader; Twickenham, Liberal Democrat): Can the Minister explain the finding in the latest report from the Learning and Skills Council on further education that safeguarded provision, far from being safeguarded, has collapsed by 42 %, affecting 185,000 adults over the past three years?
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Wed 14th May 2008
'I have no idea what we can expect him to bring forward next-Christmas, perhaps. How desperate is he?'
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Wed 14th May 2008
[May 13] Vincent Cable (Deputy Party Leader; Twickenham, Liberal Democrat): I of course welcome measures to lift low earners out of tax, and for a few hours this announcement may well get the Chancellor out of the difficulties that he created for himself.
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Tue 13th May 2008
'I want to say at the outset that . . the Liberal Democrats will have free votes on all matters in the Bill . . '
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Mon 12th May 2008
' . . The length of my remarks will be inversely proportional to how much I support the Bill, so I will aim to keep them very short indeed . . '
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Sun 11th May 2008
[May 07] Susan Kramer (Cabinet Office; Richmond Park, Liberal Democrat): As the Secretary of State will be aware, many charities will have a hole in their budget when the transitional period is over.
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| Twickenham General Election Result |
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Turnout: 51687 (72%)
51.6%
Liberal Democrat: 26696 (+2.9%)
32.4%
Conservative: 16731 (−1%)
11.4%
Labour: 5868 (−2.4%)
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Turnout: 51374 (73%)
46.7%
Liberal Democrat: 24011 (−1%)
39.5%
Conservative: 20280 (+1.9%)
9.3%
Labour: 4768 (−2%)
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