David Martin Scott Steel,Baron Steel of Aikwood,is a British politician. Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh,Selkirk,and Peebles,followed by Tweeddale,Ettrick,and Lauderdale,he served as the final leader of the Liberal Party,from 1976 to 1988. His tenure spanned the duration of the alliance with the Social Democratic Party,which began in 1981 and concluded with the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988.
Sir John Vincent Cable is a British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Business,Innovation and Skills from 2010 to 2015.
David Anthony Laws is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats,in his third parliament he served at the outset as a Cabinet Minister,in 2010,as Chief Secretary to the Treasury;as well as later concurrently as Minister for Schools and for the Cabinet Office from 2012 –an office where he worked cross-departmentally on implementing the coalition agreement in policies.
Sir Norman Peter Lamb is a British politician and solicitor. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019,and was the chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee from 2017 to 2019.
Alexander Morrison "Alistair" Carmichael is a Scottish politician and solicitor by trade who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland since 2001. A Scottish Liberal Democrat politician,he serves as the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs and Northern Ireland spokesperson. He served as the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2012 to 2021.
Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg is a British media executive and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who has been president for global affairs at Meta Platforms since 2022,having previously been vice‑president of global affairs and communications at Facebook from 2018 to 2022. Before joining Facebook,Clegg served as Deputy Prime Minister of the UK from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017. An "Orange Book" liberal,he has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies.
Jeremy Richard Browne is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton Deane from 2005 to 2015. He served as both Minister of State for Europe and the Americas and Minister of State for Crime Prevention.
Sir Daniel Grian Alexander is a former politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Inverness,Nairn,Badenoch &Strathspey constituency from 2005 until the general election in May 2015. In his first parliamentary term (2005–2010),Alexander was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Work and Pensions (2007–2008),the Chief of Staff to party leader Nick Clegg,and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Manifesto Group (2007–2010).
David Gordon Mundell,is a Scottish politician and solicitor who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Scottish Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire,Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005. Mundell was the first openly gay Conservative cabinet minister,formally coming out in 2016.
William Cowan Rennie,commonly known as Willie Rennie,is a Scottish politician who served as the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2011 to 2021. He has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Fife since 2016,and previously as a list MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife.
The Liberal Democrats are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom. Since the 1992 general election,with the exception of the 2015 general election,they have been the third-largest UK political party by the number of votes cast. They have 14 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons,83 members of the House of Lords,four Members of the Scottish Parliament and one member in the Welsh Senedd. The party has over 2,500 local council seats. The party holds a twice-per-year Liberal Democrat Conference,at which party policy is formulated,with all party members eligible to vote,under a one member,one vote system. The party served as the junior party in a coalition government with the Conservative Party between 2010 and 2015;with Scottish Labour in the Scottish Executive from 1999 to 2007,and with Welsh Labour in the Welsh Government from 2000 to 2003 and from 2016 to 2021.
The Browne Review or Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance was a review to consider the future direction of higher education funding in England.
Michael Bruce Crockart is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West from 2010 to 2015.
Stephen Anthony Christopher Lloyd is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was twice Member of Parliament (MP) for the seat of Eastbourne.
The Cameron–Clegg coalition was formed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg when Cameron was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new administration,following the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010,after the general election on 6 May. It was the UK's first coalition government since the Churchill caretaker ministry in 1945. The coalition was led by Cameron as Prime Minister with Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and composed of members of both Cameron's centre-right Conservative Party and Clegg's centrist Liberal Democrats.
The Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement was a policy document drawn up following the 2010 general election in the United Kingdom. It formed the terms of reference governing the Cameron–Clegg coalition,the coalition government comprising MPs from the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats.
The National Union of Students (NUS) "Vote for Students" pledge is a pledge in the UK to vote against tuition fee increases that was signed by over 1,000 candidates standing in the general election in 2010,notably including a large number of Labour Party MPs,who had introduced the fees in 1998 and all 57 subsequently elected Liberal Democrat MPs.
General elections were held in Sweden on 14 September 2014 to elect all 349 seats in the Riksdag,alongside elections for the 21 county councils,and 290 municipal assemblies.
The events surrounding the formation of the United Kingdom's government in 2010 took place between 7 May and 12 May 2010,following the 2010 general election,which failed to produce an overall majority for any of the country's two main political parties. The election,held on 6 May,resulted in the first hung parliament in the UK in 36 years,sparking a series of negotiations which would form the second coalition government since the Second World War.
Tuition fees in the United Kingdom were reintroduced for full-time resident students in 1998,as a means of funding tuition to undergraduate and postgraduate certificate students at universities. Since their introduction,the fees have been reformed multiple times by several bills,with the cap on fees notably rising to £9,000 a year for the 2012–13 academic year,and £9250 from 2017.
