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
Former Health Minister backs W'ton hospital campaign
Today, in a big boost to the campaign to axe a plan that means mothers-to-be could be turned away from New Cross Hospital former Health Minister Norman Lamb MP backed Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats. Local Lib Dems are calling for NHS bosses to think again.
15 Nov 2017
Interested in Liberal, SDP and Liberal Democrat history?
The Liberal Democrats have many special-interest groups, one of which is the Liberal Democrat History Group, which organises...
15 Nov 2017
Britain's Forgotten Army
I felt very privileged to be asked to represent the Chinese Lib Dems at this historic centenary of the arrival of the Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front of WWI. The story was made more poignant by the fact that they did not know they were being sent into a theatre of the most devastating war of the 20th century. I was particularly saddened to hear the stories from some of the descendants that these men were not appreciated even at the time of their hard labours and continued to this very day.
MM
14 Nov 2017
Farron calls on government to change the criteria to make it easier for local people to receive radiotherapy treatment
Local MP Tim Farron has called on the government to make travel time part of the official criteria for delivering radiotherapy to make it easier for local people to access radiotherapy treatment.
14 Nov 2017
Launch of All Party Parliamentary Group on Land Value Capture
In July of this year ALTER floated the idea of a Progressive Alliance round Land Value Taxation and put out a call for the formation of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Land Value Tax in advance of our fringe at Bournemouth on this theme.
JB
14 Nov 2017
Michael Gove is Britain’s environmental champion – no one is more surprised than me
In the Sunday Telegraph, Michael Gove sets out his plans for an environmental watchdog post-Brexit. As education secretary under David Cameron, he was seen as a career hungry politician willing to risk quality education in a drive to create academies, open creationist schools and dictate what was taught in lessons. He was marginally better as Justice Secretary, but not much. Now, he is well on the road to becoming Britain's leading environmental champion.
AB
14 Nov 2017