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SLF in conversation with: Steve Webb MP, Minister for Pensions
May 10, 2013 2:35 PM
Steve Webb spoke to SLF Council member and pensions expert Janice Turner, before many of Steve's pensions reforms - supported by the Social Liberal Forum - were announced in last week's Queen's Speech. Being a minister at the Department for Work and Pensions must be a tough gig at the best of times, and never more so in the midst -
Selling ourselves short - privatising RBS would be an opportunity missed
May 09, 2013 10:01 AM
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Putting social liberal values into action
May 06, 2013 9:33 AM
The Social Liberal Forum campaigns for policies that promote social justice and to narrow gaps in opportunity and power between the rich and poor, as a way of freeing society from poverty, ignorance and conformity. As we launch this new blog today, and reflect on the future of social liberalism, we begin by exploring how our values can translate into effective policy. Last week Nick Clegg wrote that -
SLF in the media - archive
May 06, 2013 8:41 AM
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Introducing the Plan C blog
April 25, 2013 3:56 PM
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Government agrees to retain Equality Duty under pressure from SLF and EMLD
April 25, 2013 10:14 AM
By Janice Turner, SLF Council member A joint campaign by the SLF and Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats has succeeded in persuading the government to back down over abolition of the Equality and Human -
Hello world!
April 12, 2013 12:00 AM
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Questioning the "bedroom tax"
March 26, 2013 8:24 AM
By Paula KeaveneyAt the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference recently, I asked three questions about the so called “bedroom tax”. I got a range of answers , although the one that saddened me the most mainly focused on whether the words “bedroom tax” were right. The argument about whether the “over occupancy reduction” is a tax or not is frankly not the point. I despair when I hear our Parliamentarians begin an answer by talking about word definition. I st -
Government implements more SLF policy on pensions
March 22, 2013 3:21 PM
By SLF Council member and pensions expert Janice Turner Millions of private sector members of final salary and career average pension schemes have a better chance of a decent retirement after the government implemented more SLF pensions policy in this week’s budget. Chancellor George Osborne’s budget statement announced that the Pensions Regulator would be given a new objective to support scheme funding arrangements ‘that are compatible with sustainable growth for the sponsoring emplo
