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This is no SDP rerun, but a younger socialist could still take Labour to power.
Lord Owen writing in The Sunday Times, 24 February 2019.
Read the full article here: Sunday Times article
Extracts:
“…Disowning the largest democratic vote in our history, and commitments made as recently as the 2017 general election to deliver in …
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Lord Owen speaks in the House of Lords about establishing a UK-wide Constitutional Convention.
Lord Owen’s speech on 13 December 2018 in the Debate on the current constitutional challenges within the UK and the case for the establishment of a UK-wide Constitutional Convention to address issues of democratic accountability and devolution, particularly in England.…
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Lord Owen sets out proposals for a Federal UK Council
Addressing a seminar on ‘Politics post-Brexit’ at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics, Lord Owen today (Thursday 3 November) set out proposals for a UK-wide Federal Council in a comprehensive pamphlet drawing comparisons with the German Bundesrat.
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Lord Owen on the Chilcot Report. “Let us be courageous enough to face the need to examine this issue in Parliament.”
Read the full speech here: HLIraqInquiry12.7.16
Extracts: It would have been much easier if the former Prime Minister had made an open confession that he had made many mistakes. Unfortunately, on the day of the report, having no doubt had …
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Labour’s 2015 leadership election: Lord Owen interview on BBC Newsnight
Lord Owen discusses Labour’s 2015 leadership elections and media speculation that it could lead to an SDP-style split in an interview on BBC Newsnight. View the interview, from around 16’50” in the programme, here.
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Lord Owen hopes cooperation over Caroline Lucas’s NHS Bill could lead to a wider progressive alliance amongst the political parties.
The Campaign for the Reinstatement Bill has, in essence, been adopted in this new Parliament by Caroline Lucas in her Private Member’s NHS Bill which has received a First Reading. The importance of this Bill is that prior to the …
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Lord Owen calls for time limits on Prime Ministers’ tenure of office
Prime Ministers should stay in office for no more than ten years or eight years if the Fixed Term Parliament Act is changed from five to four years, according to former Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen. He believes limitation would …
