March 2004

Sarah Ludford with Susan Kramer Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Richmond Park and Antony Wood Prospective Candidate for Windsor ready to lie down and be counted!

London LibDems Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP and Susan Kramer joined fellow night flight protesters last Friday (27th February) condemning the Department for Transport's consultation exercise about night flights as a sham.

Ludford (ELDR) draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights Justice and Home Affairs. - Mr President the General Secretary of the American National Council of Churches has recently branded the denial of human rights at Guantanamo Bay as a sin against God. I do not take a religious perspective but it is clear that it is not only Europeans who feel strongly that the situation at Guantanamo Bay offends against our sense of justice. One of the senior justices in the United Kingdom Lord Steyn branded the proposed military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay as a stain on US justice and the term 'kangaroo court' springs to mind. The British Court of Appeal has branded the detention of prisoners there as a legal black hole.

Commenting in the aftermath of the Madrid terrorist attack Baroness Sarah Ludford London MEP and European justice spokeswoman for the Liberal Democrats condemned the acts and called for a unified approach to combat terrorism.

She said:

"This is a grievous atrocity and our first thoughts must be for the victims and their families. European Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament extend their deepest condolences to all those affected by this terrible act.

"It is crucial that we do not rush to judgment on this matter simply because of the scale of the casualties. Painstaking analysis is required before blame can validly be attributed to any group or movement.

Sarah Ludford called on LibDems to continue to challenge New Labour's Daily Mail politics

Endorsing a conference motion drafted by Baroness Sarah Ludford London MEP and European justice spokeswoman for the Liberal Democrats delegates at the Liberal Democrats' Spring Conference have today resoundingly condemned Labour's immigration policy and reaffirmed the party's support for EU enlargement.