The Liberal Democrats have demanded a retrospective vote on the government’s military action in the Red Sea on Houthi rebels. Commenting, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Layla Moran MP said: Parliament should not be bypassed. Rishi Sunak must announce a retrospective vote in the House of Commons on these strikes, and recall Parliament this weekend. We remain […]

Responding to the latest figures that show GDP is estimated to have fallen by 0.2% in the three months to November 2023, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Sarah Olney MP said: This Conservative government has brought us nothing but stagnation. Sunak’s talk of turning a corner has not survived contact with economic reality. This no growth Prime Minister […]

The Liberal Democrats have called on the Deputy Prime Minister, Oliver Dowden, to come clean over his failure to sack disgraced ex-Post Office CEO, Paula Vennells, from her senior government position even after the full extent of the Horizon scandal was exposed. It comes after the Postal Affairs Minister, Kevin Hollinrake, admitted in Parliament that […]

Responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement that the government will be setting forward new primary legislation to overturn wrongful convictions during the Horizon scandal, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson, Alistair Carmichael MP said: The announcement is to be welcomed but hundreds of wrongfully convicted postmasters should never have had to live this long with such appalling injustice. […]

MPs vote on blocking water firms receiving tax cuts unless they stop sewage discharges 10 water firms paid no tax last year after government’s previous round of tax cuts on industry Water firms who paid £1.4bn in dividends to overseas owners are now set to receive permanent tax cuts from government Liberal Democrat amendment vows […]

Responding to Rishi Sunak’s Connect speech in Lancashire yesterday where the Prime Minister urged voters to continue voting for his party, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said: Rishi Sunak is like an arsonist offering to put out a fire. This mess is the fault of Conservative Prime Ministers crashing the economy, hiking taxes and […]

The Post Office Horizon scandal is an appalling miscarriage of justice – one of the biggest in British history. From the year 2000, hundreds of sub-postmasters across the country were wrongly convicted, because of faults with the Post Office’s Horizon IT system that it covered up for years. And it took until 2019, and a […]

It’s 2024, and with it comes the prospect of a General Election. Many will say the sooner the better and will be wondering just when Rishi Sunak will call a halt to the charade that passes for a government. This won’t be the only election in 2024. We have the Local Elections, the West Midlands […]