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19 July 2014

Tim Farron’s Beveridge Memorial Lecture: full text

The Liberal Democrat president calls for "a new consensus" at the Social Liberal Forum conference. 

By New Statesman

(Photo By Tim Farron speaks at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in Brighton in 2013. Photograph: Getty Images.)

William Beveridge never led our country or our party. But he changed both in a spectacular way.

He was a humble man, a good man and so I am going to make an assumption that he’d want to know what social Liberals plan to do next, rather than hear us eulogise about him.

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