Opinion: Cross-Party Support for Job-Sharing
What do Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservatives’ Peter Bottomley and our own Jenny Willott have in common? They’ve all signed up to this Early Day Motion tabled by Liberal Democrat MP for Ceredigion,...
View ArticleOpinion: Job share MPs – an idea whose time has come
As regular LDV readers may know, I’ve long advocated the idea of allowing candidates to put themselves forward for election on a job-share basis (letting constituents decide whether they want to elect...
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Job-share MPs: what Lib Dem members think
Lib Dem Voice polled our members-only forum recently to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 650 party members...
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Job shares for MPs?
It seems that journalists in the national media now make time to read Liberal Democrat policy consultation papers, even before they are discussed at Conference. Following the Mail’s rant about the...
View ArticleTom Brake writes… Job sharing for MPs – an idea whose time has come
There’s something about our system of electing one person to represent one, relatively small part of the country which makes MPs very territorial. Their constituency is “their patch” on which no one...
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