Opportunity, Skills and Training Working Group

This working group is producing a consultation paper for Spring Conference 2023 and the final paper was presented to Autumn Conference 2025.

The remit of this group is to review the party’s policies on Opportunities and Skills, 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 remit is set out here. You can find the consultation paper here. You can view Policy Paper 159 here.

Members of the Group:

• Rosie Shimell (chair)
• Cllr Stephen Gauntlett (vice-chair)
• Kirsten Herbst-Gray
• Mark Platt
• Theodore Roos
• Martin Eggleston
• Cllr Jay Mercer
• Linda Norton
• Janet Baah
• Kevin Langford
• Penny Larson
• Cllr Michael Chapman
• Cllr Colin Ferguson
• Ted Logan
• Callum Robertson
• Sal Jarvis
• Vivien Biggs
• Cllr David Johnson
• Jon Thompson