Anyone wanting to know what is wrong with politics needs only to have been at Barnet House on Thursday. I attended as a member of the spanking new committee named Business Management Overview and Scrutiny Sub Committee. Nothing else was new. The membership of the committee had changed slightly.
Liberal Democrats in Hinckley and Bosworth have called for disgraced Bosworth MP David Tredinnick to resign immediately following his second breach of House of Commons rules.
Commenting on the release of a ministerial statement on the rail accident at Grayrigg this morning, local MP Tim Farron said:
Brentwood & Ongar's Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, Cllr David Kendall has proposed an "electoral covenant" between candidates and voters in response to the recent scandal over MP's expenses.
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokesman for Bosworth, Michael Mullaney, has pledged his support for Vote Cruelty Free, a new non-partisan coalition of animal protection organisations working to put animals on the political agenda.
From the BBC: Joanna Lumley joined thousands of people to celebrate the Gurkhas being given the freedom of Folkestone, where they are based.