Liberal Democrat Party Politicians

Liberal Democrat Party Politicians

Liberal Democrat David Laws is the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury. David Laws, age 44, is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Yeovil and was first elected in 2001. David Laws graduated from Cambridge with a double first class degree in economics and went into investment banking, becoming a Vice President of JP [...]

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Vince Cable is the new Business Secretary, one of five Liberal Democrats in David Cameron’s new coalition government. Vince Cable studied Economics at Cambridge University and gained a PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow. He became an economic advisor to the Kenyan government in 1966 and advisor to the British government and then [...]

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We have a new deputy PM in the form of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. What does a Deputy Prime Minister do? The Deputy Prime Minister office is a relatively new post with the first Deputy Prime Minister being Labour’s Clement Attlee under Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s coalition war time government 1940-1945. When you think [...]

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