A powerful selection on Ukraine, a call for Priti Patel to be sacked, a celebration of Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire, a tribute to Lib Dem by-election stalwart Erlend Watson, a decent gag about Dick Turpin, an evisceration of the Tories over sleaze and partygate (including a call for a public enquiry into Boris […]
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Living with Covid: Shambolic Govt taking NHS & Care services for granted
Responding to the Government’s plan on Living with Covid, Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said: The Conservatives have been planning to end free Covid testing for more than two months, yet still we have no clarity on what this means in reality. Boris Johnson wasn’t even able to answer the simple question of […]
Ed Davey: Scrapping Covid tests means 4 million face £500 tax on caring
Boris Johnson’s latest attempt to rehabilitate himself with sceptical Tory MPs is to scrap the need to self isolate if you have Covid in England. So you are now free to spread it far and wide. You would think that you would have to monitor the impact really carefully. That is way too sensible for […]
Daisy Cooper: Scrapping free lateral flow tests would leave the public flying blind.
Yesterday, LBC reported that the Government would scrap free PCR and lateral flow tests for Covid from as early as next week. Lib Dem Health spokesperson Daisy Cooper highlighted the dangers in this approach, saying it would also make it impossible for those at highest risk of severe disease to properly assess what was safe […]
Ed Davey: Boris Johnson must resign
Ed Davey has said that Boris Johnson must resign over the Downing Street parties. He said: “Boris Johnson has broken the law and lied to Parliament and the country, and he must now go. “Millions of people obeyed the lockdown rules, often at huge personal cost. They missed funerals, cancelled weddings and said goodbye to […]
Daisy Cooper: Boris Johnson needs to go
The constant drip feed of stories of Government Covid rule breaking continues, most recently with the picture of Boris Johnson taking part in a quiz as the Daily Mirror reports: EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson accused of personally breaking Covid laws by hosting a Christmas quiz in No10 last year – and we’ve got pictures 👀https://t.co/lzcEnXeHck — […]
Daisy Cooper outlines Lib Dems’ 5 point plan for clinically extremely vulnerable people
As the world’s scientists try to work out the extent of the danger posed by new Covid variant Omicron and Governments grapple with with what it might mean for the Winter ahead and Christmas in particular, Lib Dem Health spokesperson Daisy Cooper has set out a 5 point plan to address the needs of one […]
Daisy Cooper: Ambulances are on high alert across England
A month ago Daisy Cooper submitted a question to the Government, and she has only just received a reply. Her question was: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulance trusts have moved into REAP Level 4 in the last six weeks; and how many in total are at […]
Munira Wilson: Ministers are burying their heads in the sand over rising Covid cases
The Liberal Democrats have demanded that the Government hold an emergency SAGE meeting to discuss surging Covid cases, and what measures may be needed to curb infections and protect the NHS and schools this winter. It comes as it emerges that Government scientists have not met to discuss Covid for weeks and cases are running […]
Moran: Introduce Health Data Trust to protect private medical data
Today, at their Conference, the Liberal Democrats have backed ambitious plans to safeguard private health data. The party is calling for the establishment of a five-point ‘Health Data Charter’, which will set out key tests for whether data sharing is in the interest of the public and the NHS. They also propose a ‘Sovereign Health […]