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The Liberal Party is a United Kingdom political party, founded in 1989 by members of the original Liberal Party opposed to its merger with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to form the Liberal Democrats. the Liberal Party held 20 council seats at county and district level and 15 seats at community level. The party has no representation in the UK Parliament, nor Members of the European Parliament (MEP) or members of the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales. At the 2001 General Election, the party's best result was coming second behind Labour in Liverpool West Derby, pushing the Liberal Democrats into third place. However, they were unable to repeat this at the 2005 and 2010 General Elections, finishing third behind the Liberal Democrats in the constituency, but still beating the Conservatives. At the 2015 General Election, they came fourth, narrowly holding their deposit, ahead of the Liberal Democrats who came last and the Green Party but behind the UK Independence Party and the Conservative Party. the party president is Steve Radford and the party chairman is Sir Henry Boyle. The party anthem is ''The Land''. The party states that it exists: :"To build a Liberal Society in which every citizen shall possess liberty, property and security and none shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. Its chief care is for the rights and opportunities of the individual, and in all spheres it sets freedom first." ==History== The Liberal Party, founded from the Whig Party in 1859, entered into an alliance with the SDP in 1981 and later merged with them in 1989 to form the Liberal Democrats. A small minority of the Liberal Party, notably including former MP Michael Meadowcroft (the last elected President of the Liberal Party), unhappy with what they saw as authoritarian and economic interventionist policies that veered away from traditional Liberal policies, resolved to continue with the Liberal Party. The continuing Liberal Party included several councillors and entire council groups from the pre-1988 party which had never submitted to the merged party and continued as Liberals (hence the disputed foundation date), but no MPs. Since then, the number of Liberal councillors has been broadly constant. In 2002, Meadowcroft stepped down from the party presidency and was replaced by Councillor Steve Radford. In 2007, Meadowcroft left and joined the Liberal Democrats. In 2009, Radford stood down and was replaced as president of the party by former councillor Rob Wheway. Wheway served a year as leader; Radford was re-elected party president in 2010. In June 2015, Fran Oborski announced that she has left the continuing Liberal Party and has joined the Liberal Democrats. 〔http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/13315637.Retired__but_still_offering_a_solution/〕 〔https://twitter.com/cllrfranoborski?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.focuskeepintouch.uk%2F&profile_id=259685390&tw_i=609754603584925696&tw_p=embeddedtimeline&tw_w=501689597160476672〕 Party members take part in Liberal International (LI) activities though the Liberal International British Group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liberal Party (UK, 1989)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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