Devon & Cornwall and Western Counties Joint Regional Conference and AGMs
DATE CHANGE: CONFERENCE TO TAKE PLACE February 8th and 9th 2020
14 Jan 2020
National News
Tories failing to keep people safe
Responding to the HM Inspectorate of Probation report, which has found that the National Probation Service (NPS) is hampered by staff shortages, stretched middle managers and poor facilities, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson Daisy Cooper said:
LD
14 Jan 2020
Greening Liberal Democrat Conferences
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KM
13 Jan 2020
Trying to ease the university parking problems
The Liberal Democrats have asked the county council to undertake a consultation with residents about parking problems around the Oxstalls university campus.
13 Jan 2020
Why we don’t need genetically modified crops
In his first speech as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson vowed to help biosciences by removing restrictive legislation so that blight-resistant and other GM crops can be grown in the UK. No doubt he and President Trump are planning to flood the UK with US agricultural products, including genetically modified crops and their associated toxic chemicals.
PC
13 Jan 2020
Boris Johnson's Britain means uncertain horizons for young people post 2020
Lib Dems MPs recently tabled an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill to save Erasmus, so that students can live, study & work across the EU. Last week, the Tories voted it down. We will keep fighting to stop Boris Johnson limiting the horizons for young people. The Liberal Democrat amendment would have inserted a clause in the withdrawal agreement bill requiring the government to seek continued participation in Erasmus+ on existing terms after Brexit, and to report on the progress of negotiations to parliament. But on Wednesday MPs voted down a second reading of the amendment, by 344 to 254. What is Erasmus? The Erasmus programme (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) is an EU funded programme that organises student exchanges. Each exchange is designed to enable the student to gain valuable international experience, either by studying part of their degree abroad, or undertaking a work placement (traineeship). The exchanges usually take place in the second or thir
13 Jan 2020