Liberal Democrat Conference today debated and endorsed their policy paper "Our Natural Heritage", as a statement of the party's key policies for protecting and enhancing biodiversity and the natural environment.
Speaking at the Liberal Democrat conference today, local Shrewsbury campaigner Dr Charles West joined Sarah Teather MP in condemning Labour's record on housing.
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate Robin Lawrence said "The food and oil price crises of last year forced 150 million people in the developing world back into extreme poverty and the current global downturn will trap another 90 million people in poverty. At the 2005 Gleneagles summit the G8 agreed to increase aid levels by $50bn per year by 2010, these pledges have not been honoured in years of sustained global economic growth. We should still, in a time of economic downturn, take action to fulfil these outstanding pledges is now essential to prevent a dramatic reversal of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)."
Newcastle North campaigner Ron Beadle is backing a regional Liberal Democrat campaign to bring the Olympic flame to our region as part of the UK celebrations in 2012.
"If there were ever a time for the Liberal Democrats, this is it," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor.
Conference today noted that despite pressure from MPs, campaign groups and the media, the Government refuses to set up a full public inquiry into allegations that the UK Government had a policy between 2002 and 2005 that permitted British Intelligence Services to act in ways that may have given rise to complicity in torture and illegal abduction.
