Union of Liberal Students | |
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Founded | 1920 |
Dissolved | 1993 |
Merged into | Liberal Democrat Youth and Students |
Headquarters | Offices at the National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London |
Ideology | Liberalism (British) Radicalism Community politics Social liberalism |
Mother party | Liberal Party |
International affiliation | International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth (IFLRY) |
European affiliation | European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) |
The Union of Liberal Students (ULS) was the English and Welsh student wing of the United Kingdom's Liberal Party. The Scottish Liberal Party had a separate organisation, Scottish Liberal Students.
ULS was founded in 1920 as the Union of University Liberal Societies and merged with the student wing of the UK Social Democratic Party when the parent parties merged. Together with the party's youth wing, the National League of Young Liberals (NLYL or Young Liberals), the organisations made up the Young Liberal Movement. In 1990, the two organisations themselves merged to form Liberal Democrat Youth and Students (LDYS). In Spring 2008, it was renamed Liberal Youth, and in December 2016 as Young Liberals.