Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
The Lib Dems have rediscovered their byelection mojo – can they capitalise?
arah Olney's win may be unlikely to affect Brexit, but her party's victories in Richmond Park and elsewhere point towards a new chapter 'Richmond Park was a byelection made in heaven for the Liberal Democrats. Their opponent - a prominent leave campaigner whose father had funded the anti-EU referendum party in the 1990s, and who upset many of those of a small "l" liberal disposition with the style and tone of his London mayoral campaign in the spring. The constituency was a Lib Dem stronghold for over 40 years (until the vote collapsed, like almost everywhere else, in last year's general election) where over 70% of voters had voted to remain in the EU, putting it in the top 10 pro-EU constituencies. Local Labour voters were long used to voting tactically for the local Liberal Democrat. All the party had to do was to turn this unusually propitious set of circumstances to its advantage.
JC
3 Dec 2016
Push for hard Brexit led to Richmond Park win, says new Lib Dem MP
Sarah Olney says 21.5% swing in byelection was secured because Tory remain voters felt PM was only focusing on leave camp Theresa May's decision to pursue a hard Brexit is driving Conservative-supporting remainers to desert the party, the Liberal Democrats' newest MP said in the aftermath of her sensational win in the Richmond Park byelection.
AAP
3 Dec 2016
Richmond Park by-election
Commenting on the Richmond Park by-election result , Heather Kidd said: This is a great day for the Liberal Democrats. We have...
3 Dec 2016
Sarah Olney wins Richmond Park by election
Sarah Olney's victory in the Richmond Park by election overturned Zac Goldsmith's 23,000 majority from the 2015 General Election. It has very clearly put the Liberal Democrats on the map as the UK-wide party which is committed to supporting the UK's place in the EU.
MA
3 Dec 2016
Act now to have your say in the proposed merger between Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils
Suffolk Coastal District Council and Waveney District Council have been working in partnership for some years, and now wish to...
3 Dec 2016
Conservative/UKIP/Goldsmith Beaten by People Power in Richmond as Liberal Democrats Win the Seat
In an unusual Parliamentary by-election where the sitting Tory MP resigned to fight as an independent, where the Tories (wisely) did not dare to stand against their rebel, where UKIP failed to stand at all but the man who bankrolls them supported the maverick ex-Tory candidate, where the Labour Party was eclipsed and lost its deposit, where the Greens strategically supported the Liberal Democrats, the result was a classic barnstorming victory for the Liberal Democrats. The newly elected Liberal Democrat MP, Sarah Olney said in the early hours of this morning, "A year and a half ago I wasn't involved in politics, I wasn't a member of a political party, I had never been involved in a political campaign, I had never thought about being a politician....But I knew I was a liberal.
2 Dec 2016