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Exclusive Shortlists Are Illiberal and Undemocratic Those of you who watched the Andrew Marr show last Sunday would have seen much talk about the upcoming EU Referendum, but there is one story that emerged that has gotten me and many other within the Liberal Democrats, spitting feathers. The Independent on Sunday published a story claiming that the Liberal Democrats could become the first party to introduce candidate shortlists made up of only those from minority groups, in an attempt to widen the Continue reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1253,1255,3],"tags":[1468,1467,953,950,1469],"class_list":["post-62877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libdems","category-policy","category-politics","tag-conference","tag-exclusive-shortlists","tag-front-page","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-tim-farron"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

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