The Herald (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Alistair Carmichael, the Orkney and Shetland MP, has been appointed Scottish election co-ordinator by Tavish Scott with a pledge to make the Liberal Democrats “the principal opposition to Labour across the country” in time for a General Election.
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
I was inspired for this post by the Liberal Democrat Voice Members' Survey of the month which asked which MPs we thought should be in the Shadow Cabinet. First, one of my favourite politicians is Alistair Carmichael. He is down-to- earth, funny, hard working, intellectually well up to mastering any brief and a supportive adviser to a number of people. He is also brave enough to speak his mind when...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
The curious tale of Stuart Hill who has declared his remote island in the Shetlands to be independent of the United Kingdom - much to the irritation of his local MP Alistair Carmichael, a Scottish MP, can't help but shake his head when the name Stuart Hill is mentioned. Hill is the infamous 65-year-old pseudo-revolutionary who recently claimed one of the Shetland Islands as his own, declared it an...
Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Commenting on Conservative proposals to strip Scottish MPs of voting powers on legislation affecting England, Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael said: "Ken Clarke’s proposals are no improvement on previous Tory plans for ‘English votes on English issues’."
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News . Everyone writes satire nowadays and no one reports what is said in debates at Westminster. So maybe serious is the new funny? A Westminster week MPs are away for the Whitsun recess, so there is time to look at what was going on in Westminster’s backwaters last week. In Thursday’s Commons adjournment debate Kevan Jones, the Labour MP for North...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
I don't know if I will get the chance to use this in House Points, but I thought I would park the link here before I forgot where I saw it. Alistair Carmichael speaking in Westminster Hall last Wednesday: It is ... a matter of some family pride that my father was for many years a member of the auxiliary coastguard, which is now a volunteer coastguard, on Islay. He was an active and leading participant...
Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
It would seem 15 Liberal Democrat MPs (different news websites are using different figures) rebelled yesterday and defied the Whip on abstaining on the Conservative amendment calling for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Three frontbenchers - Alistair Carmichael, Tim Farron, David Heath all resignedly from their positions.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Nick Clegg suffered his first major crisis last night as 15 rebels, including Alistair Carmichael, defied his leadership of the LibDems on the key Commons vote on whether or not to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
David Torrance (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
BBC Online carries the news that the Lib Dems' Shadow Scottish Secretary, Alistair Carmichael, today quit his party's front bench in order to defy his whip and vote for a referendum on the EU Treaty. You can see him explain why by clicking here . STOP PRESS: Michael Moore, Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, has been appointed Scottish spokesman in place of Carmichael.
angels in marble (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Twelve members of the Westminster Parliament are elected by Scottish voters as Liberal Democrat MPs. Here is the Early Day Motion tabled recently by Alistair Carmichael, who has just resigned from his shadow Liberal Democrat front bench position over the amendment seeking a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty which the Liberal Democrat leadership sought to defeat. - That this House notes with concern clause...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Well, it's three according to the Telegraph’s Three Line Whip blog and The Times's Red Box blog - they are: * Alistair Carmichael - Scotland and Northern Ireland spokesman and MP for Orkney and Shetland (majority: 6,627) * Tim Farron - Countryside spokesman and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale (majority: 267) * David Heath - Justice spokesman and [...]
The First Post (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Two Lib Dem frontbenchers - Alistair Carmichael and Tim Farron - have resigned before tonight's big vote so that they can vote with the Conservatives for a referendum, rather than [...more]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Alistair Carmichael, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Scotland, is today poised to defy his leader, Nick Clegg, and risk being sacked from his front-bench job over the key Commons vote on Europe.
Blether with Brian (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
The sense of ambition, if not presumption, lies in the title. Alistair Carmichael was introduced to the LibDem conference in Aviemore today as “the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland.” Last time I checked, Commons nomenclature awarded that title to...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
The MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, can make the boast that he has strong links to two leaders of his party.
