Tory Party activists have been gathering for their spring conference in Brighton, the last nationwide meeting before the start of the general election campaign.     The two-day spring conference comes at a time when support for the Tories has fallen dramatically; last year they looked unassailable but recent polls have suggested that their lead over Labour [...]

  Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire, Jo Swinson has welcomed a Home Office report which recommends airbrushed adverts carry warning labels.   The report by Dr. Linda Papadopoulous, which was released on Friday looks into the sexualisation of children in the media and its impacts on their behaviour. The Liberal Democrats’ Real Women campaign [...]

This article was written by Vince Cable and appeared in today’s Mail on Sunday Anyone who thought that the credit crunch and the banking crisis were over can think again. We are back to bonuses beyond the wildest dreams of someone on an average salary; there is a choking credit squeeze on many British companies [...]

On Monday night, Gordon Brown faces a crucial showdown over Labour’s plans to “squeeze” the benefits of nine million pensioners – it is expected that the government will save half a billion pounds.  The Government has proposed freezing part of the state pension from April, yet is telling hard-up retirees they are getting a good [...]

Speaking earlier this afternoon on the BBC News following the Tory Leaders’ speech the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhnesaid: David Cameron’s description of himself as a “salesman” at the Tory spring conference today would make people feel “wary.”  “If you turn up on someone’s door and try and sell them double glazing people are [...]

Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire, Jo Swinson has criticised the Government for spending just £30 million of a promised £152 million of key environmental and renewable energy funds over the last three years.  The Liberal Democrats have revealed through Freedom of Information requests to the Department for Energy and Climate Change found that just a [...]

Ahead of the debate in the House of Commons on the renewal of the use of control orders for another year, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne has written to the Conservatives to ask them if they will be voting against this renewal in the debate. Chris Huhne said: “We should not be the [...]

“The implication that David Miliband had the wool pulled over his eyes is deeply embarrassing for the Foreign Secretary,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary. Commenting on the publication of a judge’s criticism of the security services, which stated that some officials ‘appear to have a dubious record when it comes to human rights [...]

This weeks Liberal Democrat Councillor’s surgery is at Oakwood Lodge in Chaucer Avenue, Short Heath. Liberal Democrat Councillor Ian Shires will be at the Centre from 7pm to 8pm tonight (Friday). So if you’ve got a problem you’d like to get off your chest or you just want some information, why not pop along.

Hard core anti social behaviour is to be targeted by Willenhall Liberal Democrats reports Liberal Democrat Group Leader councillor Ian Shires. Figures show that in general anti social behaviour has reduced across Willenhall, but go and tell that to residents living near to the linear walkway off Stroud Avenue, Short Heath and those living near to the children’s [...]