Social Liberal Forum

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The Social Liberal Forum is a group within the Liberal Democrats, formed "With the specific goal of celebrating and developing social liberal thought and approaches within the party."[1]

According to the group's own account:

The Social Liberal Forum represents the coming together of a number of individuals who have formerly been involved in the Beveridge Group and the Reinventing the State Group (which oversaw the publication of the Reinventing the State collection of essays in 2007), and others.[2]

Jim Crabtree, writing in Prospect, reported that the emergence of the forum, along with the publication of Reinventing the State, represented a response to the publication of the Orange Book by Lib Dems on the right of the party.

Elsewhere, a new organisation called the Social Liberal Forum was founded to try to bring coherence to the party’s left, and to balance out other new groups, such as the think tank CentreForum, funded by the Orange Book co-editor Paul Marshall. The result is a party that increasingly sees policy decisions as a contest between its two ideological wings.[3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ About, Social Liberal Forum, accessed 10 January 2011.
  2. ↑ About, Social Liberal Forum, accessed 10 January 2011.
  3. ↑ James Crabtree, Who are the Liberal Democrats?, Prospect, 21 June 2010.
  4. ↑ Who We Are, Social Liberal Forum, accessed 10 January 2011.
  5. ↑ Who We Are, Social Liberal Forum, accessed 10 January 2011.
  6. ↑ Who We Are, Social Liberal Forum, accessed 10 January 2011.
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