Over the last few weeks there have been lots of preparations for a possible election going on, including the manifesto, in conditions of great secrecy - so much so that I wasn’t even sure I should reveal the existence of Saturday’s meeting of the Federal Policy Committee to finalise it. But since I see a mass email referring to it has now come out from Chris Rennard, I guess I can do so (and I see that Alex Wilcock has reached the same conclusion, in an excellent and full analysis of the current situation).
Clearly I can’t say much about what’s in the manifesto but I will say that I thought Saturday’s was one of the best meetings of the FPC that I have been to in my six years’ involvement (and we meet every month). It was a good meeting and I think it is a very good document.