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“What is it like to end up in bed with the Tories?" Shirley Williams: "Not one bed, two beds." The coalition is an experiment in grown-up government but must also be a launch pad for Liberalism, not a slide into decline.See More

ENGAGE aims to open up the policy process – by facilitating two-way exchanges between the wider membership and those involved in formal policy-making. We'd love to hear from you about how you'd like us to do this.

Liberal Democrats in London

The group for members, supporters and friends of Southport Liberal Democrats.

The catalyst for this group was the dropping of Jo Swinson from Question Time on 26 Nov 2009 This Group aims to encourage ACTivists to complain to the media when Lib Dems are not fairly represented.

Here's something for all of you who want to liberalise the laws on cannabis - a report from the Institute of Psychiatry that skunk users are 7 times more likley than other cannabis users to develop psychotic illnesshttp://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/news/?id=361See More

Prohibition isn't working. LDDPR is lobbying for revision of lib dem policy to ensure decisions to take drugs are based on a comprehensive education on risks. Drugs are harmful. The government should take back control from criminal profiteers.See More

The Liberal Democrat History Group promotes the discussion and research of historical topics, particularly those relating to the British Liberal Democrats and its predecessor parties, the Liberal Party and the SDP, and of liberalism more broadly.