Mary Reid

Susan Kramer MP has been leading the Lib Dem's campaign against the  expansion of Heathrow Airport.  Her constitiuency of Richmond Park includes all the parts of the borough north of the Kingston/New Malden railway line, and she has the full support of her Lib Dem colleagues nearby.

So it is pleasing to hear that she has decided to focus all her energies on this very important environmental campaign.  In the Shadow Cabinet mini-reshuffle today she announces that she has chosen to leave the Shadow Cabinet to concentrate on this, and she clearly wasn't pushed as she was doing a good job before on families.

Edward Davey remains as the party's Shadow Foreign Secretary.

One move that really interests me is the new role for Lynne Featherstone. She is going to chair the party's New Technology Board. As it happens, her website was one of the first I designed for the party, when she was still a councillor in Haringey. The site is ripe for redesign at the moment but I was quite pleased with it at the time. And it set her off exploring the potential of the Web for campaigning, which in turn led her to produce one of the best political blogs around.