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Programme aired on BBC Radio 5, 2 April 2025.
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He discusses a range of topics including world affairs under the Trump presidency; NATO, Ukraine and Russia; the need, from a security perspective, for the UK to “be more European”; and defence spending. Lord Owen also touches on the current electoral scene with the rise of Reform and the need for some form of proportional …
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New Poll Shows Yes Campaign Failing to Persuade Voters, Press Release, April 2011
“AV Referendum: Nick Clegg is Failing Vote Reformers, says Lord Owen”, published Daily Telegraph, April 2011…
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 free choice between proportional representation as well as AV and the status quo. Fixes happen in Parliament, but they have no place in the referendum.…
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 and a feeling in the country that, as a result of the negotiations, we had to have a Government which would, first, carry conviction in international markets-their first challenge, which …