Libs Dems Willing To Work With Labour
The Liberal Democrat Leader, Paddy Ashdown, has said he's willing to work in partnership with Labour to bring about a decade of modernisation in Britain.
Mr Ashdown told Radio Four's Today programme that the two parties might be able to cooperate on constitutional changes and in the areas of education and health.
"We have a very powerful hand given to us by the electorate and we intend to play it through," he said.
"But one of those mandates is for a new form of politics, rather more honest, rather more rational," added Mr Ashdown.
"If we can find a way to a cooperative form of opposition in this country, to produce a more constructive form of politics, then we should do that - that's what change is about," he insisted.
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The new Liberal Democrat line-up
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Later, the Liberal Democrats held the first meeting of their Parliamentary
party since the election. They now have 46 MPs, the best electoral showing by a
third party in almost seventy years.
It will require some new thinking; until now, every Liberal Democrat was guaranteed a job shadowing a government department.
At the first meeting of his team, Paddy Ashdown told them they had the mandate to argue for greater
investment in education and policies to improve the NHS.
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