After our conference in Manchester, we’re happy to announce the bidding for Liberal Youth’s Summer Conference now open. This is a great opportunity to showcase your city to our members. To submit a bid, please complete this form and email it to…
Nick Clegg supports Bears for Belarus
Today, Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats & Deputy Prime Minister, gave his support to Liberal Youth’s campaign, Bears for Belarus. The campaign, which started last month, seeks to raise awareness of President Lukashenko’s despicable regime. Nick Clegg joins…
Liberal Youth's reaction to Nick Clegg's apology
Liberal Youth welcomes Nick Clegg’s apology for not keeping his pledge on tuition fees. Liberal Youth has always opposed the Government’s decision to raise tuition fees. Whilst we have also always supported the efforts of Liberal Democrats MPs to secure…
Lukashenko clamps down on Opposition Websites
Today our fears were confirmed: Lukashenko’s media crackdown has hit the Bears For Belarus site. It has now been confirmed that Charter97, Belpartizan and other opposition sites that have extensively covered our campaign and others similar are officially blocked in Belarus.…
Young Liberal Democrats campaign for Civic Rights in Belarus
Using teddy bears, Liberal Youth has kickstarted a campaing raising awareness of Europe’s Last Dictatorship. Alexender Lukashenko, President of Belarus, is known as ‘Europe’s last dictator’. Lukashenko has now turned his authoritarian regime on soft toys. In August, two journalists…
LY in the news…
Liberal Youth Chair Tom Wood appears in the print version of The Guardian today on page 6. He was interviewed by Political Editor Patrick Wintour about Employment Support Allowance and the Liberal Youth motion going to Federal Conference demanding changes to it.
Joint-Letter to Workers' Youth League
The following joint-letter is to be sent to the Workers’ Youth League (Norway) on behalf of Conservative Future, Young Labour and Liberal Youth.
Liberal Youth respond to secession of South Sudan
As South Sudan becomes the world’s newest country, Liberal Youth has taken the opportunity to welcome its secession and wish the country the very best in its difficult task of building both a state, and a nation.
Activate 2011 success!
Liberal Youth’s annual training event, held this year in the illustrious Lake District, proved to be a fun, inspiring and productive weekend for all its attendees.
Liberal Youth broadly welcomes HE White Paper
Liberal Youth broadly welcomes the introduction of the Government’s Higher Education White Paper. While it looks forward to the debate moving from fees to the other important issues of HE policy, it will track developments closely to ensure the paper’s intentions are implemented.