Journal of Liberal History

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Journal of Liberal History

For the discussion and research of Liberal, Liberal Democrat and SDP history

Salad days: merger twenty years on

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Liberal History
Date of event: 3 July 2008
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Twenty years ago a new political party was born from the merger of the Liberal and Social Democratic parties the Social & Liberal Democrats (or Salads, as the party was disparagingly nicknamed by its opponents).

This meeting will explore the political background to the merger and the byzantine process of negotiation through which it which it came about. Did it really deserve the description of merger most foul?

Speakers: Lord Clement-Jones, member of the Liberal merger negotiating team; Lord Goodhart, member of the SDP merger negotiating team; and Professor David Dutton, Liverpool University.