In his New Year message the Labour leader Ed Miliband described 2011 as the year of consequences as he warned that the Government’s cuts were forbidding and unheeding. He said Labour’s job was now to persuade voters that the party offered ‘a better, more optimistic future for Britain’. In response, the Liberal Democrat President-elect Tim [...]

So, we now know where David Winnick the Labour MP for Walsall North stands on fairer votes and electoral reform, he’s firmly in the NO camp, but where does the Labour MP for Walsall South, Valerie Vass stand on this issue? Is she with her leader Ed Milliband in the YES camp or is she like her Walsall [...]

By Stephen Tall | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 30th December 2010 – 7:45 pm Poor Ed Miliband. In his first speech to the Labour party conference he tried his valiant best to show that Labour had changed, that it was a party which could re-claim the progressive liberalism it so happily junked in the Blair/Brown [...]

A New Year message to Liberal Democrat party members and supporters from Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. @ http://bit.ly/fsrHS7

It’s time the Labour Party decided what they are doing electoral reform and stop playing silly political games in 1997 they were in favour, and the said in their manifesto: “We are committed to a referendum on the voting system for the House of Commons. An independent commission on voting systems will be appointed early [...]

During the recent snow and icy conditions our Liberal Democrat Focus teams have received many comments from concerned residents about the council’s lack of flexibility in the way in which it has dealt with what have been unprecedentedly circumstances. So concerned were Liberal Democrat councillors on Walsall Council they have called for and got an [...]

Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader, who has recently been appointed the Government’s new Advocate for Access to Education, said he regrets the coalition’s decision to increase tuition fees, but he said that young people now need to understand the facts. The party’s deputy leader, Simon Hughes, who abstained in the Commons vote, said [...]

According to the homeless charity, Shelter, more than 71,000 children will have spent this Christmas in temporary accommodation. Government figures have recently revealed the plight of homeless children across the country who will be spending Christmas Day in hostels, bed and breakfasts, refuges and temporary private rented accommodation*. Some families will have to move several [...]

The following article by Helen Duffet originally appeared on the Liberal Democrat Voice website: It’s an unnecessarily well-kept secret that the Liberal Democrats have already achieved much in Government since the General Election. Despite the Guardian saying today that “the Liberal Democrats have rushed out a checklist of 67 party manifesto commitments already or nearly [...]

“It is a privilege to be asked to take on this role, and I will do so with urgency, enthusiasm and determination.” Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes has been appointed to the role of Advocate for Access to Education. The Advocate for Access to Education will work with the Government to ensure that its [...]