Baroness Joan Walmsley writes…Wasting a rare resource – and children’s lives
One of the worst scandals in the NHS is the provision, or lack of it, for children with mental health problems.
JW
10 Oct 2017
National News
In defence of tax credits: We must be the clear anti-poverty party
I was horrified at the proposal, contained in George Kendall's recent article that we cut tax credits to fund lifelong learning accounts. (I assume George was also referring to Universal Credit, the successor to tax credits, and I speak of them here interchangeably.)
IP
10 Oct 2017
Perhaps the source of most frustration since becoming involved as a Lib Dem is...
Perhaps the source of most frustration I've had since becoming involved as a Lib Dem activist is the institutional, bureaucratic superiority complex one has to deal with to do anything differently from campaigns we ran 10 years ago, 20 years ago and before.
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10 Oct 2017
MP condemns removal of overnight mental health workers in Cumbria on World Mental Health Day
On World Mental Health Day, local MP Tim Farron has submitted an Early Day Motion to the House of Commons, condemning the removal of certain overnight mental health workers in Cumbria.
10 Oct 2017
Farron accuses government of “daylight robbery” over NHS service charges
Local MP Tim Farron has accused the government of "daylight robbery" after Central Lakes Medical Group was left with a huge proposed increase in service charges at its Ambleside site because of a change in how the property of the NHS is managed.
10 Oct 2017
The post-Brexit future of farming
In an article headed "UK farmers risk seeing incomes halve after Brexit", the Financial Times writes today that UK farmers...
10 Oct 2017