Chair: Freddie Poser
College: Gonville & Caius
Subject: Computer Science
CRSid: fp363
Why I’m a Liberal: “Did I join CULA because I was a liberal, or did joining CULA radicalise my liberalism? Either way, I’m sure this portrait of Henry George wasn’t here before.”
Vice-Chair and Membership Development & Alumni: Laura Ryan
College: Downing
Subject: Neuroscience (PhD)
CRSid: lr477
Why I’m a Liberal: “I’m a sceptic, and liberalism is the only avenue to any society that I would want to live in.”
Secretary: Keir Bradwell
College: Queens’
Subject: History and Politics
CRSid: kdb35
Why I’m a Liberal: “The Pet Shop Boys once said: ‘there’s a lot of opportunities; if there aren’t, you can make them.’ Society should function like this. But all too often, it doesn’t.”
Junior Treasurer: Laurence van Someren
College: St John’s
Subject: Maths
CRSid: alv36
Why I’m a Liberal: “I’m a liberal because as a 10-year-old I had a crush on Nick Clegg and I’ve been too dogmatic to consider alternative viewpoints since then.”
Campaigns: Cosmo Lupton
College: Jesus
Subject: HSPS
CRSid: cl812
Why I’m a Liberal: “I believe that empowering people, giving individuals the tools to live their lives as they please, neither dictating to them nor abandoning them, is the best means by which we can deliver a just society. Liberty and social justice should go hand in hand and I think only liberalism fully embraces that.”
Communications: Peter McLaughlin
College: Downing
Subject: HSPS
CRSid: pm664
Why I’m a Liberal: “I am a liberal because liberal values—freedom of speech, democratic government, free trade and competitive markets, individuality, equal access to justice—are those that have consistently lifted human beings out of destitution and created human flourishing.”
Social Events: Freddie Fisk
College: Robinson
Subject: History
CRSid: ff326
Why I’m a Liberal: “I’m an optimist. Freedom should be positive.”
Speaker Events: Joshan Parmar
College: Fitzwilliam
Subject: Maths
CRSid: jp862
Why I’m a Liberal: “I joined the party on a whim last year and am now too invested to leave.”
Women’s: Helena Trenkić
College: Jesus
Subject: Modern European History (MPhil)
CRSid: ht394
Why I’m a Liberal: “I believe in the fundamental rights to individual freedom and true equality before the law and in society, which no country has yet achieved. I joined as Women’s and Non-Binary Officer because political discussion only works when everybody contributes, and because that shift won’t come with a hands-off approach.”
Deputy Events (Co-opt): Sophie West
College: Christ’s
Subject: HSPS
CRSid: srw65
Why I’m a Liberal: “A unity of individual liberty and social justice, liberalism enshrines the freedom of one while ensuring it does not become the fetter of another. Ergo, when a Tory tornado rages and one’s house lands on the body of a failing opposition, the only option left is to don some liberal slippers and follow the yellow-brick road.”