Upcoming Events
We run a programme of exciting and diverse events where our members can meet policy makers, discuss policy and network with other business leaders and entrepreneurs.
“The Business Network offers a great opportunity to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, executives and professionals from a wide range of industries and professions. We regularly gather to explore key business challenges and policy ideas with Lib Dem MPs, Peers, and influential speakers. With the changing landscape, the Liberal Democrats are increasingly positioned as the natural party for business.”
📅 Tuesday 24th February - Growth Before Populism: Advancing the Case for a Customs Union
The Form Rooms, 22 Tower St, London WC2H 9NS and online via Zoom. 6.30pm arrival for 7pm start.
Join Dr Al Pinkerton MP, Europe Spokesperson, for an insightful session exploring how a Customs Union can dismantle the trade barriers currently stifling British industry and economic potential. This event offers a pragmatic roadmap for achieving frictionless trade and long-term stability, ensuring the UK is positioned for sustainable growth during unstable political times across the continent.
📅 Thursday 19th March - Lib Dem Spring Business Summit
The Memoir Club, 12 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0HX. 2pm to 6pm.
Join leading Liberal Democrat Parliamentarians and policymakers for an exclusive opportunity to connect, network, and exchange ideas - all in a convenient Central London location.
As the Party continues to strengthen its economic vision, we are seeking to engage with business leaders and industry experts to test policy ideas and contribute insights that will directly inform our policymaking process.
This is a chance to engage with Parliamentary Spokespeople from the UK’s largest third party in over a century, helping to shape the agenda as we prepare for the next UK election - an election poised to be the most consequential for a generation.
Don’t miss this opportunity for high-level engagement, meaningful dialogue, and a chance to have your expertise heard where it counts.
LDBN members will receive 50% discount on tickets. Contact adam.bennett@libdems.org.uk to access the discount.
📅 Thursday 26th March - Can property tax reform be politically palatable?
Central London TBC. 6.30pm arrival for 7pm start.
Everyone agrees Britain’s tax system is a mess. Its complexity breeds distortions, burdens growth and imposes costs on taxpayers and the government alike. It penalises work, risk-taking and thrift, while leaving much unearned wealth—particularly in land values— untouched. The "squeezed middle” pays too much, and the very rich far too little.
But how to fix it? Simplifying and broadening our tax system, and shifting the burden to unearned increases in wealth, sounds great in theory but hits huge political obstacles in practice.
Dan Neidle used to work at Clifford Chance where he was “horribly overpaid” providing tax advice to some of the world’s largest businesses”. He is now Britain’s foremost campaigner for tax reform. He writes in the FT and other newspapers, and offers powerful critiques on social media of this and previous governments’ policy failures. Liberty Network is delighted to host him in discussion with Sarah Olney, Lib Dem MP for Richmond Park, Business Spokesperson, and one of the party’s most formidable front-benchers. They will be in discussion with Edward Lucas, columnist for The Times and witness to tax reform successes in countries such as Estonia.
If the Lib Dems are going to champion tax reform, then it has to work on the doorstep in seats like Richmond Park. How should we frame the problem and the solutions? What are the priorities and trade-offs?