Liberal Democrat conference 2009
Updated on 17 October 2009
All the coverage and analaysis from a controvertial week by the sea in Bournemouth for the Liberal Democrats.
- Day 1: Nick Clegg starts his party's conference calling for "savage cuts" in public spending.
- Day 2: Gary Gibbon talks to Nick Clegg about David Cameron and ditching some of his party's cherished policies.
- Day 3: Treasury spokesman Vince Cable takes to the stage, calling for an extra tax on £1m homes.
- Day 5: Nick Clegg closes the party's conference with a rallying call to delegates and voters.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg closes the conference with a rallying call to support the party at the next election, and an attempt to quell a growing sense of mutiny in party ranks over his plans to cut spending and raise taxes.
Click here to watch Cathy Newman's report.
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Snowcloud: Nick Clegg's speech
At a glance: see the key words in Nick Clegg's speech with our interactive Snowcloud.
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Treasury spokesman Vince Cable causes more controversy by using his speech to the Lib Dem conference to call for a new extra tax on homes worth more than £1m.
Click here to watch Gary Gibbon's report.
From Gary Gibbon's blog:
"The Lib Dems have been lecturing everyone for years on the iniquities of property taxes but today announced a new one of their own."
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"Vince Cable has just told the conference: 'You live in a low-tax economy.'
"But his position is still that taxes should come down. What he was talking about was the current tax take, which is pretty thin."
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Snowcloud: Vince Cable's speech at a glance. Click the images below to generate a full-screen Snowcloud of the speech.
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Gary Gibbon talks to Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg about his differences with David Cameron, spending cuts and abolishing the party's tuition fee pledge.
"I think it is off-putting if the choice before the British people is just a choice between three hatchet-faced accountants," he said.
"You have got to be driven by values, and it is precisely to be able to provide, to free up money to put in to those priorities that you do need to take very difficult and bold decisions elsewhere."
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From Gary Gibbon's blog:
Just been interviewing Nick Clegg and asked him a few times if he would rule out propping up a Conservative minority administration, led by the man he calls a "conman".
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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg kicks off the conference by calling for "savage" spending cuts, and calling for the party to drop some central planks of its policy such as the pledge to abolish university tuition fees.
Click here to watch the report and the interview with treasury spokesman Vince Cable.
From Gary Gibbon's blog: "The first party conference of the era of cuts and the top story is, you guessed it, cuts."Click here to read more.
