The LibDems are choosing their own path to increase the number of women and ethnic minority candidates. Rather than the quota-based A-list approach, championed by David Cameron, Ming Campbell has decided upon bribery ...a package of financial inducements.
Targets seats that choose women or ethnic minority will receive extra financial support from a Diversity Fund. The LibDems hope to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for this purpose and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has already pledged £200,000.
Of the LibDems' 63 MPs, nine are women but none are from an ethnic minority.
