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Police chiefs letter: police and criminal justice systems need “real leadership” say Lib Dems
Responding to the six police chiefs’ letter to the Times today warning of the consequences of underinvestment in the police system, Josh Babarinde MP, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson, said: ...
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Defra cuts: Government treating rural communities with “gobsmacking contempt”
Responding to reporting in the Guardian that the nature-friendly farming budget is set to be slashed in the UK spending review, Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson Tim Farron MP said: ...
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Weakening of BNG Mandate: now is not the time to dilute protections
Responding to reports that the MHCLG has launched an 8-week consultation on whether to weaken the BNG mandate requirements, Liberal Democrat Housing and Planning spokesperson, Gideon Amos MP said: ...
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Prepayment Meters: victims must see compensation before the winter and debts fully written off
Responding to the announcement that thousands of energy customers are set to receive payouts of up to £1,000 each in response to the prepayment meters scandal, Liberal Democrat MP for Bath and long-ti ...
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Thames Water must be turned into a public benefit company
Speaking on the £122.7m fine handed down to Thames Water, Lib Dem Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Spokesperson Tim Farron MP said: ...
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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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Badenoch must rule out Rupert Lowe joining Conservatives
Responding to reports that Rupert Lowe is ‘open’ to joining the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader and Treasury Spokesperson, Daisy Cooper MP, 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: ...