Other contributors include Chris Huhne, Susan Kramer, Mark Oaten and Steve Webb.

[2] The term Orange Bookers refers to those in the party who subscribe to the book's emphasis on greater personal choice and possible market solutions.

In the book, the group offers liberal solutions—often stressing the role of choice and competition—to several societal issues such as public healthcare, pensions, environment, globalization, social and agricultural policy, local government, the European Union and prisons.

Six years following the book's publication, the Liberal Democrats joined with the Conservatives to form a coalition government.

Edward Stourton from the BBC radio show Analysis argued that the Orange Book movement within the Liberal Democrats was important in the founding of the coalition government with the Conservatives.