The thing I was most scared about during the 2015 election was not having Norman Lamb as a Minister any more. He had done so much for mental health and I was worried that some Tory (because I feared they would win) would just undo all his work. A House of Commons without Norman in […]
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Vince, Luciana and Norman write about mental health
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day. Three of our MPs wrote articles on different aspects of mental health. Vince Cable wrote for Times Red Box (£) about his mother’s post natal depression and the impact on their family. When I was aged ten, shortly after my brother was born, my mother had a breakdown. She […]
6 December 2018 – today’s press releases
You begin to sense the uncertainty emanating from Whitehall, but there’s plenty going on elsewhere in the governance jungle… Brexit plans could lead to European Windrush scandal Mental Health Review must lead to more investment Universal Credit Causing Housing Crisis – Welsh Lib Dems Brexit plans could lead to European Windrush scandal Responding to the […]
29 November 2018 – today’s press releases (the 500 miles edition)
Later than usual this evening, as I’ve spent the evening at a Proclaimers concert, courtesy of my lovely wife… it wasn’t 500 miles away… PM leaving us in the dark on immigration Cable: May “running scared” of real opposition Lib Dems warn BBC that ‘Brexit debate’ may breach Ofcom code Government has let down victims […]
29 October 2018 – today’s press releases (part one)
Budget Day always generates a lot of press coverage, and this year is no exception, but there have been plenty of other issues worthy of comment. Indeed, there has been so much that I’ve been forced to do this in two parts… Welsh Lib Dems – Budget a Golden Opportunity Ahead of the UK Government’s […]
Gosport findings ‘shocking and devastating’
We have all be shocked by the revelations about the inappropriate treatment of elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Here is Norman Lamb talking about the way the NHS closed ranks when he was Health Minister, and how he called for the enquiry that has just been completed. We also have some quotes […]
Theresa May shamelessly takes up discredited Leave campaign slogan
Most of my memories of the Leave campaign involve the blatant lies it told. 77 million Turks, we were told, would pretty much be here the day after we voted Remain, according to their literature. And the biggest lie of all was emblazoned on the side of a bus. £350 million a week for the […]
Lamb: Government failing abysmally on GP target
Embed from Getty Images Last week a study highlighted that almost a million EU workers could leave the UK after Brexit simply because they “feel less welcome and valued” in the country and in their jobs. The impact that is going to have on our health service and the wider economy is severe. Today, it […]
Lamb: Government failing abysmally on GP target
Embed from Getty Images Last week a study highlighted that almost a million EU workers could leave the UK after Brexit simply because they “feel less welcome and valued” in the country and in their jobs. The impact that is going to have on our health service and the wider economy is severe. Today, it […]
Mental Health deaths must not be neglected
This October, I will have been associated with the Liberals and the Liberal Democrats for some 45 years. In 1972 I joined the Liberal Students at Manchester University Medical School where my best subjects were Psychology and Psychiatry so it is unsurprising, perhaps, that I have not only pursued the interests of the NHS as […]