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 […]

Who should be holding the Police to account? Much has been said on this subject recently since West Midland’s Metro Mayor Andy Street (Conservative) made his latest bid to incorporate the powers of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner into that of the Elected Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority. It would seem […]

Why is it that folk will vote in large numbers for their favourite “Strictly” celebrity, or throw someone off “I’m a celebrity get me out of here” yet they can’t be bothered to vote in a General Election or worse still, a Local Election? In the former, their vote actually costs them should they choose […]

It was good to see draft plans emerging as to how Walsall’s Saddlers Centre might look after its much heralded launch back in February 2022. But let’s not forget, none of this would be possible if the Labour/Lib Dem Coalition on Walsall Council between 2016/18 hadn’t made the bold, but much critised decision to buy […]