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Davey on Farage speech: “Trussonomics on steroids”
Responding to Nigel Farage’s speech today, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said: “Nigel Farage praised the disastrous Truss mini-budget, and now he wants to repeat it with huge unfunded spending ...
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Triple lock: from privatising the NHS now Farage “wants to come after people’s pensions”
Responding to Nigel Farage refusing to commit to keeping the triple lock, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said: ...
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Labour needs to “learn to u-turn faster” on two-child benefit cap
Responding to Bridget Phillipson telling the Today programme that scrapping the two-child benefit cap is “on the table”, Daisy Cooper MP, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson and Deputy Leader, said ...
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Patients “left in the lurch” as month long waits for last minute cancelled ops to be rearranged more than double
Close to 20,000 operations cancelled at the last minute took more than 28-days to rearrange last year, in breach of the NHS’s own standard, research by the House of Commons Library commissioned by the ...
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Nearly 2 million to be hit by £9 billion “stealth tax bombshell” by the end of the decade
The Labour government’s plans to maintain the income tax threshold freezes introduced by the Conservatives mean that an ...
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Winter Fuel Payments: Govt needs to complete world’s slowest u-turn
Commenting on Angela Rayner’s interviews on the Sunday shows this morning, where she refused to give clarity on Winter Fuel Payments, Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said: ...
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Number of lung cancer patients not treated within two-month standard rises by 40% with some waiting more than a year
The number of lung cancer patients waiting longer than the 62-day referral to treatment standard has risen by 41% since 2019, with 3,750 patients enduring waits of at least two-months last year, ...
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Telegraph deal: stake promised to UAE before legislation approved “puts the cart before the horse”
Responding to reports that the Telegraph has agreed a deal with a US private equity firm but that the UAE will retain a 15% stake, Chris Fox, Liberal Democrat Lords’ Spokesperson for Business and ...
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Helping spread our strength across the country
Party President Mark Pack starts his May report with news of a councillor with over 50 years of public service.
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Government borrowing figures: "warning lights must be flashing in the Treasury" - Lib Dems
Responding to the latest figures showing that Government borrowing in April was at its fourth-highest since records began, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Daisy Cooper said: ...
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Govt back Lib Dem campaigns protecting victims of domestic abuse and sexual offence
Today (22nd May), the Government has agreed to act on two Lib Dem campaign priorities as part of their response to the Gauke Review.
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Teachers’ pay award: Govt “building castles in the sky” if they think schools can fund rise
Responding to Bridget Phillipson’s statement on a pay award for teachers, Munira Wilson MP, Liberal Democrat Education, Children and Families Spokesperson, said: ...