Empowering Local Communities

This working group is producing a consultation paper for Spring Conference 2027 and the final paper will be ready for Autumn Conference 2027.

The remit of this group is to review the party’s policies on Empowering Local Communities, and make updated proposals which communicate our values of liberty, equality, democracy, community, internationalism and environmentalism in a way which helps secure the election of as many Liberal Democrats as possible, at local, regional and national level, in order to promote our vision of society.

The group's full remit is set out here.

Members of the Group:

• Rt Hon Paul Burstow (chair)
• Zöe Franklin MP
• Baroness Pinnock
• Richard Cole
• Cllr Martin Horwood
• Rehana Ali
• John Armah
• Sunshine Babalola
• Cllr Gill Cleeve
• Iain Donaldson
• Cllr Judith Edwards
• Paul Fox
• Revd. Daniel Valentine
• Cllr Tom Reeve
• Cllr Jonathan Harris
• Sophie Layton
• Helen Isaacs
• Majeed Neky
• Cllr Bill Revans
• Sarah Hoyle
• George Hadjiyiannakis
• Gordon Lishman CBE
• Cllr Edna Murphy
• Ukonu Obasi
• Alison Hannon
• Robert Barr
• Katrina Best
• Simon Holbrook
• Anne Owen
• Cllr Lesley McLean
• Cllr Callum Robertson