THURSDAY 31 MARCH 2011
Lord Owen (Crossbench)
The NHS is dear to us all, and the care and health professions have made a difference to pretty well every family in this country. However, the 353 pages of the Health and …
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30 years on from the SDP
CentreForum debate to mark the 30th anniversary of the formation of the SDP, Monday, 22 March 2011
A Message from David Owen
I wish I could have been with you to hear and contribute to the debate but I am …
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David Owen: I support a PR system, but I will be voting ‘no’ in the AV referendum
Published in the Independent Sunday, 13 March 2011
The referendum on AV has, unsurprisingly, generated very limited enthusiasm. People know they are being used as part of a fix between politicians unwilling to trust voters and let them have a …
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We Will Continue to Campaign for PR
We Will Continue to Campaign for PR
Article by Lord Owen et al, The Guardian, Friday March 2011
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Speech to The House of Lords debate on The Constitutional and Parliament Effect of Coalition Government
SPEECH BY THE RT HON LORD OWEN
20 JANUARY 2011
My Lords, the circumstances in which this Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition came into existence need to be recalled. It was against a very serious financial crisis, a large structural fiscal deficit …
