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TYLER MOVES HOUSE Print E-mail
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Friday, 22 July 2005

Paul Tyler keeps the Cornish flag flyingAt the 2005 General Election Paul Tyler retired as MP for North Cornwall, after serving the constituency for more than 12 years. In addition to his relentless campaigning on a broad range of issues during his time in the House of Commons, Paul also served the Liberal Democrat Front Bench as Chief Whip and most recently as Shadow Leader of the House.

Paul was subsequently made a working peer and introduced to the House of Lords on 15th June. He is now Liberal Democrat spokesman in the Lords on constitutional reform issues, and served on the 2006 Joint Committee on Conventions, which examined and set out the relationship between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

This site will serves as a portal for the issues which Paul continues to raise in the UK Parliament and is regularly updated.

Paul also chaired a special policy working group for the Liberal Democrats, on Better Governance.  Its report, For the people, by the people was published in September 2007, and was approved overwhelmingly by the party's autumn conference.  It is available here.

Image:  Paul keeps the Cornish flag flying

Last Updated ( Friday, 30 November 2007 )
LABOUR AND TORIES DENY PEOPLE RIGHT TO SACK MPs Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

LABOUR AND TORIES DENY PEOPLE RIGHT TO SACK MPs

Both Labour and Conservative Parties have voted to deny constituents the right to sack their MP in cases of gross misconduct.

At the first opportunity to fulfil their promises of recent weeks, neither party instructed its Peers to support a Liberal Democrat amendment to make possible ‘recall’ of MPs who have been suspended by Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

Speaking in the House of Lords debate this afternoon, Liberal Democrat spokesman, Lord Tyler said:  “If we dodge this issue now, the pubic will think that we have deliberately forgotten it, despite the promises of the party leaders.  Delay will be interpreted as a further broken promise.”

Labour Peers nonetheless voted against the proposals and Conservatives took instructions from their whips to abstain, despite the expressions of support from Gordon Brown and David Cameron last week.

However, Liberal Democrats led a successful cross-party attack on donations by foreign multi-millionaires to political parties.  A record 45 Labour backbenchers in the Lords supported a move to insist that only those who paid tax in the United Kingdom should be "permissible donors".  Despite Government and Tory opposition, the amendment was carried by 107 to 85.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 June 2009 )
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100 DAYS TO INTRODUCE REAL DEMOCRACY IN BRITAIN Print E-mail
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Friday, 29 May 2009

100 DAYS TO INTRODUCE REAL DEMOCRACY TO BRITAIN

Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Tyler has worked with Party Leader Nick Clegg to out line a radical response to the crisis in confidence in British politics. 

The plans would:

·         Give people the right to sack MPs

·         Stop all big party political donations

·         Introduce an elected House of Lords

·         Make the voting system fair - so that governments can't just get all that power and all that money with only a minority of you voting for them

·        Put an end to self serving politics and put you back in charge

Read the full plan here – it’s a week by week programme to change Britain in 100 days. 
LOCAL CAMPAIGN FOR REFORM OF DOG CONTROL LAW Print E-mail
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Friday, 01 May 2009

LOCAL CAMPAIGN FOR REFORM OF DOG CONTROL LAW

Defective Conservative legislation controlling ‘dangerous dogs’ is in urgent need of reform, according to Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Tyler. 

The former North Cornwall MP told the House of Lords on Friday that ‘the Dangerous Dog Act 1991 is cited by political students, not just in this country, but all over the world as a classic case of the danger of a knee jerk response to events producing a law that seeks to remedy a situation in speed.’ 

Lord Tyler made special reference to particular case he had dealt with on behalf of two of his then constituents in Newquay, over the course of two years, when their obedient, friendly Staffordshire Bull Terriers were threatened with destruction after German authorities confused their breed with that of the American Staffordshire Terrier.  Over 6000 people signed a petition to demand a review of the law.

Last Updated ( Friday, 01 May 2009 )
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