Lib Dems offer cash for women MPs

Cash incentives are being offered to local Liberal Democrat parties who recruit women and people from ethnic minorities to stand for election.

Senior Lib Dems deny the plans amount to a bribe. They say action is needed because all of the party's 63 MPs are white and only nine are women.

Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell says a £200,000 first slice of a new fund is being offered now.
It will be debated on the first day of the Lib Dem conference in Brighton.

Delegates are being asked to ensure that making the Lib Dems more representative is one of the party's core priorities, alongside proportional representation in elections.

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