on 15 may 2015, leadership candidate norman lamb mp proposed a change to the rules that would mean that the deputy leader is elected by all party members on a one member one vote basis, with the explicit purpose of ensuring that the deputy leader is a woman, suggesting to party members' website "liberal democrat voice" that "she could be one of the former or future colleagues mentioned below; a peer, a member of a devolved chamber or the european parliament; a leading councillor or seasoned campaigner."