‘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.
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.
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.”
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
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).
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today in Parliament raised a government briefing document which warned of the “risks” of speaking about the exact number of Horizon cases which are expected to be overturned by new legislation.