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Local Elections will be a choice between fashion and principle - Campbell

April 27, 2007 1:09 PM
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Campbell "fashions come and go, but principles endure"

Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies Campbell has said that May's local elections represent a choice between fashion and principle.

Speaking to party workers at the Liberal Democrats' Westminster headquarters, he said:

"Tony Blair pioneered the politics of fashion. But David Cameron has become its most loyal disciple.

"Well I am not in that game. Fashions come and go, but principles endure. Standing by your principles means speaking up for them when they are not fashionable.

"It means years of fighting for the environment, for gay rights, and civil liberties not just when they are popular and the argument is won.

"But also when they are unpopular - and the terrain is hostile. That is what Liberal Democrats stand for."

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