Apologies for the lateness of the hour – I was trawling through my ballot paper for the Party’s internal elections… Braverman appointment: Lib Dems call for Cabinet Office inquiry Cancer diagnosis postcode lottery revealed as over 60,000 wait more than two weeks in August alone Fiscal plan delay leaves families in a cloud of uncertainty […]
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20 October 2022 – today’s press releases
You don’t expect press releases to become obsolete quite so quickly but the past forty-eight hours have been historic (or hysterical, depending upon your perspective), so these, published in chronological order, perhaps sum up the events of the day… Trevelyan refuses to back Truss: Conservatives way past their sell by date NHS waiting list in […]
17 May 2022- today’s press releases
The Liberal Democrats are the main challengers to the Conservatives in Tiverton and Honiton NI Protocol Changes: Risks starting a trade war with our largest trading partner Welsh Liberal Democrats call for 24/7 mental health service The Liberal Democrats are the main challengers to the Conservatives in Tiverton and Honiton Responding to the announcement that […]
Dodds: GPs could be forced to leave Wales
Yesterday in the Senedd, Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Jane Dodds requested that the Welsh Government issues a statement on the possibility that 80 or 160 overseas trainee GPs in Wales may be forced to leave the country. The request came as the Lib Dems revealed that across the border in England, 6.2 million people waited […]
Onley letter: Suicide risk assessment must be improved
Sarah Olney, MP for Richmond Park, and Steve Mallen, co-founder of the Zero Suicide Alliance are the lead signatories in an open letter to Sajid Javid published in yesterday’s Times. Onley and national charities have teamed up with Philip Pirie whose son Tom, a young teacher, took his own life a day after a counsellor […]
Cooper: NHS rocked by mental health tidal wave
The Liberal Democrats have warned the NHS is at breaking point after new figures uncovered a mental health crisis sweeping through staff across health services in the UK. A Freedom of Information Request tabled by the Party to all NHS Hospital Trusts has revealed that there have been at least 8.3 million mental health sick […]
Ed Davey’s speech to Conference: Lib Dems can defeat this awful Government
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 […]
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 […]
Cutting sick pay for unvaccinated employees – what do you think?
I’ve been really concerned this week that some major employers are cutting sick pay for unvaccinated employees to the statutory minimum. ITV reports how companies like Next, Morrisons and Ikea are only going to pay employees who have to self-isolate Statutory Sick Pay of only £96.35 per week, whereas those who have been vaccinated will […]