LIBG is part of both the Liberal Democrats and Liberal International. It holds regular online forums mainly on current affairs outside Europe with participants from around the world. Meetings will be notified in the site's events or news sections. LIBG is also represented at Liberal International executive meetings and congresses and maintains relationships with sister parties abroad.
Liberal International British Group will be in Brighton for the 2024 Autumn Conference. Come and see us at our stand.
We also have a fringe event at 1pm on 14th September in the Regent Room, Grand Hotel. See the forthcoming events page for more details on "Trump, Harris and the Future of Transatlantic Relations"
What future for Internationalism in a troubled world?
Saturday 31st August 11.45 - 14.00
Royal Scots Club 29 Abercromby Place Edinburgh
Liberal International Scotland are holding a top level discussion lunchtime reception in Edinburgh on Saturday 31 August 2024. Lord David Steel and Lord Jeremy Purvis will be joined by Christine Jardine MP.
Please see the Forthcoming Events page for more details.
Yesterday I attended a packed Global Strategy Forum event at the National Liberal Club, on the UK's future post-Brexit foreign policy. Malcolm Rifkind spoke for the Conservatives, Jack Straw for the Labour Party and Menzies Campbell for the Liberal Democrats. It is the largest lunchtime event I have ever attended at the NLC, over 40 years, and it was standing room only.
LIBG executive member Rebecca Tinsley has written a piece on the Open Democracy website in her own capacity on whether the UK's business links with dictatorships really open channels to raise human rights issues, as the Government claims.
Liberal International executive meeting Tblisi, Georgia, May 2016
The inaugural meeting of LIBG's north west England branch took place in Preston on 22 April.
Liberal International's 59th congress suffered perhaps from a rather odd choice of timing - a congress in Europe held only weeks before most of the continent would be caught up in European Parliament elections.
LIBG executive member Cllr Howard Henshaw (Fylde) and Kiron Reid (Liverpool) are looking to hold a meeting of any Liberal International and Liberal Democrat members and other Liberals interested in international affairs in the North West.
