Our Unrepresentative Second Chamber: women (not) in the House of Lords
Rishi Sunak likes diversity – when it suits him
13 Mar 2024
National News
Melksham and Devizes
Budget a Bust
‘Smoke and mirrors’, is a phrase often used to describe magicians, or those who are trying to deceive you. It’s a phrase often thrown at politicians these days, and Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to do the same at the budget last week.
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13 Mar 2024
Bexhill & Battle
Becky Jones - Bexhill and Battle Pensioners hit by Budget stealth tax!
21,430 Bexhill and Battle pensioners are set to be hit with a £21,429,883 stealth tax following the Budget, new analysis by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
13 Mar 2024
Canterbury Lib Dems Mike Sole introduces Council Budget "of Common Sense"
Cllr Mike Sole (Lib Dem) announces the first budget of the new administration : “This budget is much more than a balanced spreadsheet, it is a programme for change. “Not just a budget of pounds and pence, but a budget of common sense.”
13 Mar 2024
Cole-Hamilton: Use emergency legislation for fastest route to justice for Scottish subpostmasters
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on SNP ministers to find the fastest route to justice for Scottish subpostmasters and to consider bringing emergency legislation which mirrors the UK Government’s new law to quash wr
13 Mar 2024
Alistair Carmichael - Westminster
Carmichael presses ministers on urgency in restoring Gaza aid funding
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has spoken in Parliament on the need for ministers to speed up a decision on restoring funding to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).
13 Mar 2024