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
Stamford… my kinda town!
When people ask where I live, I usually say Stamford, although I actually live in a village a few miles outside it. That's partly because they will have heard of Stamford (unlike my village, it was voted the best place to live in 2013!), but also because, in many ways, it feels like my spiritual home. Many friends live there, and it is the place in which I stroll, shop, eat out, meet friends for coffee or lunch, explore with visitors, or see cinema, live music or theatre. Theatre has been a particular delight! Having been involved in community theatre for 15 years, I was keen to join Stamford Shoestring Theatre Company when we moved into the area, and I quickly fell in love with its wonderful Arts Centre venue, its friendly & talented members and all-round top quality productions. Their play last September, Good People - in which I was fortunate enough to play a Bostonian professor with a rather unpleasant husband - remains one of the finest productions I've ever been involved in. And last week, we saw th
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14 Mar 2017
Reality bites as Labour peers help Brexit bill through
So what's bothering them? Why the sour faces? Surely this is the moment of their greatest triumph? Surging ahead of Labour in the polls. The snarling Right-wing press firmly on side. Only a tiny number of recalcitrant Conservative MPs. And the Article 50 letter, triggering the final steps towards the Promised Land of Brexit, tantalisingly close, writes Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats' spokesman on Europe, in today's Evening Standard.
14 Mar 2017
The Budget - Missed Opportunities
In early January this year, the community's secretary Sajid Javid was interviewed by Sky News and he said that "ready to go" homes - from factory built to custom-made apartment blocks - will be a key component of his housing white paper to be published this month as he looks for new schemes to hit his eye-watering target.
BLD
14 Mar 2017
Tory Hard Brexit imperils EU nationals in Sevenoaks and Swanley
The Liberal Democrats have criticised the Conservative Government for voting against the right of thousands of EU nationals in our area to stay, as a majority of MPs gave the final go-ahead to a Hard Brexit.
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14 Mar 2017
Join @timfarron for Euro campaign photos at conference
I'm really proud to be the Liberal Democrats' Brexit Spokesman for the South East. Working with Nick Clegg, our national Brexit spokesman, to hold the government to account and fight for the true national interest could not be more important. One of the most successfully ways to communicate a message is visually. Pictures speak loudly.
AH
14 Mar 2017
Reaching out to the ‘Left Behind’: what policies should we put first?
The pitch which the Leave campaign successfully made to the poorest 10% of UK citizens in last June's EU Referendum was that their problems of low pay, insecure jobs and waiting lists for affordable housing were all due to competition from immigrants, and would be eased by leaving the EU. The budget, with little on social housing and less on funds for schools or other public services in deprived areas, has made their situation worse, rather than better. Labour has been hesitating about how far to buy into their grievances about immigrants. How should Liberal Democrats respond to their resentments and needs? The peers' working group on 'The Left Behind' is now drafting an initial report. We have worked through a mass of relevant material, from think tanks, foundations and parliamentary reports. We've also discussed, among ourselves and with others, our direct experiences from campaigning in urban working class communities and rural and seaside towns - the places, BBC News detailed breakdowns suggested, that ha
LWW
14 Mar 2017