Save our Town Centre
Across Britain, you can't have failed to notice that our high streets and town centres are run down.
TFM
18 Mar 2019
National News
Layla Moran launches independent education commission to build “education system of the future”
Lib Dem Education Spokesperson Layla Moran MP launched a new independent Education Commission on 15 March 2019. The Commission, chaired by Teach First co-founder Jo Owen, will work with the teaching profession, researchers and wider industry to develop a more radical and pragmatic vision for a future-perfect education system. While Layla convened the Commission she does not sit on it, nor does any other elected politician.
RLD
18 Mar 2019
Liberal Democrats demand a Clean Air Act
Liberal Democrats demand the Conservative Government bring forward a Clean Air Act enshrining the legal right to unpolluted air.
RLD
18 Mar 2019
York Conference 2019 - A Delegate's Report
Over 1,000 Liberal Democrats traveled to York and were rewarded with some beautifully crafted and delivered speeches and some from nervous first timers but they were all united in their passion for justice. Delegates from all over Europe spoke about their sadness at the possibility we might be no longer a part of the European Union and all speakers were united in their anger that we will be cast away from the biggest market in the world and the union that had brought peace, solidarity and free movement to so many diverse nations.
FLH
18 Mar 2019
Sir Vince's Speech to the York Spring Conference
Sir Vince Cable makes his final Spring Conference speech as Leader " we are committed to tackling the underlying causes of Brexit. " " What is democracy if it is not the right for a country to change its mind?" " It is dividing families, communities, and even the United Kingdom and sucking the energy out of government. "Anyone who imagines that getting Theresa May's proposed Brexit through Parliament at the - third, fourth, fifth - time of asking will bring closure and stability is suffering from serious self-delusion." "If Brexit is a political Everest, we have only just got to the Base Camp. " What a sad state of affairs that our main safeguard against Home Office tyranny is its own chronic inefficiency." "There are millions of Conservative voters who are disgusted with the incompetence, the self-indulgence and the inhumanity of this Tory Government but so long as Labour appears to be a nightmare, they will cling to the Tory nurse, for fear of something worse. "It is a sobering thought that just under 2,0
18 Mar 2019
Former Chelmsford Mayor Felicity Sturt passed away
Former Chelmsford Mayor Felicity Sturt passed away at her home on Saturday 2nd March 2019. Felicity was 85 years young and dedicated to the local community.
18 Mar 2019