Local MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that Lib Dem party conference have backed proposals to reduce the wait for the first benefits payment for people on Universal Credit from five weeks to five days.
Liberal Democrats councillors and activists will be out in force tomorrow in Newcastle City Centre following up their Climate Emergency motion and the stratedy approved by their Party Conference with a street protest locally.
Following the decision of former Labour Castle Ward councillor Lee Clark to join the Liberal Democrats, the 2016 Conservative candidate for Silverhill has done the same.
Liberal Democrats have committed to turning the lives of offenders around with a series of rehabilitory measures to overhaul our criminal justice system.
Haringey Council has been forced to admit that Labour’s decision to charge residents to dispose of Green Waste is failing to...
Responding to speculation on Nexus Metro procurement amid suggestions by the Mayor of Tees Valley that Hitachi's Newton Aycliffe plant will not be the eventual winner of the contract for new Metro trains, North East Liberal Democrats chair Cllr Greg Stone said: "Clearly a procurement process is well advanced. It would be legally problematic if that process has been compromised by a political leak and it could lead to delays and legal challenge by unsuccessful bidders. We are already concerned by the potential delay in replacing the current life-expired Metro fleet, which is experiencing increasing daily breakdowns affecting service reliability. This will only get worse between now and 2024 when the new fleet will be complete. The first new trains are due in 2021, but no order has yet been placed. "This situation is politically embarrassing for Nexus and council leaders on the Joint Transport Committee overseeing this, and reveals shortcomings in public transport governance in the region given comments by th