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Liberal Democrats
How formed ?
were
they had mised fortunes in

-
·
SDP and Liberal
Party in 1998 I elections so
they decided to join

Gang
of
↳ worried about Labour
becoming too forces

4 left-wing
First Leader >
-



Paddy Ashdown


Height of success -
2005 with 62 seats

Y
they wanted to
get rid of feel

2010 election
hung parliament Libdem & conservative coalition
-
·
so

↳ & David Cameron
↳ LD -
57 seats
Nick
was
Clegg
Reversed but the
on tuition fees policy they put in their manifesto to stop any increase
any
more

coalition was responsible for it increasing to -9250 a year.

AV Refrendum 68 % No & 32 % Yes Tories had blame
someone to
scapegoat for all
:
as a
42 % Turnout the failed policies


2015 >
-

drop to 8 seats
Tim Farron elected


2017 -
Vince Cable elected as leader


2019 ->
To Swinson


Sir Ed
2020
Davey
-




LIBDEMS FOLLOW Progressive (New) Liberalism
↳ more compactionate
batic welfare provision
What do regulation ↳ need for market
they believe
? ,




-individual rights & economy
> missed
classic ->
,toleration & equali
freedom
·
Liberalism
= personal
Liberity freedoms & ,
limiented
gor
liberalism minimal state +
*
social
democracy (part of New Labour) self reliant & improvment
·




Of those who are let fatunate

freedom etc
·


Liberty is v important
>
State should not intervene in lives.
Privacy should
-

.
, ,

be
protected
Equality within society through inequality of income & removal of artificial
opportunity
·

,

are born with
privilages you
·
Welfare State :
V.
important to My people free
of disables ethnic
isocial
reformers >
Champion rights Minorities & LGBTQIA +
->



,

, Under Nick
Clegg
more orthodox policies :
protection of civil liberties constitutional reform
,


tax cuts if elected
Significant
↳ of tass led to Liberals'
repositioning 'Orange Book triumphing over
social liberals'
↳ made 2010 coalition more conceivable


IDEOLOGICAL STRANDS

Orange Book - Draw
liberals on Classic liberalism
·
influenced by neo-liberation of Milton Friedman & they
↳ ·
endoge Thatcherite economic
Ed Davy
Nick
Deg9
David Laws

Social liberals -*
Draw on new/progressive liberalism of Keynes & Beveridge
·
Reject Thatcherite economics
a Tim Farron
Simon Hughes


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