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Deciding Policy

Liberal Democrat conference is sovereign – the policy of the party can only be decided by conference, and what conference votes for becomes party policy. Election manifestos are drawn up by the Federal Policy Committee (which is itself elected mainly by conference reps) from amongst the policies conference approve.

Policy is decided by debates on policy motions, which can be submitted by any local party or any ten conference reps (and also by the Federal Policy Committee, state and regional parties). The Federal Conference Committee selects the motions from amongst those submitted.

If you would like help drafting a motion for an upcoming conference, download this short guide to writing motions.

The Agenda for conference will contain all the motions selected for debate. All of these will be open to amendment, and the procedure is exactly the same as for motions.

Conference Committee selects the amendments in the same way as it does motions. You can download this brief guide to how debates are run.

Spring
Conference

Sheffield
11-13 March 2011
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Autumn
Conference

Liverpool
18-22 September 2010
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