Strip Boris of ex-PM £115k allowance until he comes clean Welsh Liberal Democrats Respond to Building Safety Announcement Boris Johnson should be stripped of the ex-PM allowance of up to £115,000 a year until he answers questions about his financial arrangements while he was Prime Minister, the Lib Dems have said. This comes further to successive reports regarding 'credit facilities' which Johnson secured while he was in Downing Street, reportedly facilitated by Richard Sharp who was subsequently appointed as BBC Chair. The Lib Dems have warned that until Johnson comes clean about these facilities, whether there was any conflict of ...
Liberals and Liberal Democrats have been trying to win affluent Conservative seats in the South of England ever since Orpington Man was discovered. But give the media a catchy term like the 'Blue Wall' and our ambitions there become a news story and one that ican be regularly repeated. The Blue Wall story in yesterday's Observer in that it identified a planned change in Lib Dem campaigning in those seats: Lib Dem campaigners charged with securing a breakthrough in seats in the south-east are gathering in a Staffordshire hotel this weekend, as all the parties begin to sketch out their ...
Embed from Getty ImagesI don't love Eric Idle like I love Pat Nevin, but I picked up his memoirs - inevitably called Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - at the library too. An unexpected discovery from it is that Idle appeared in Oh, What a Lovely War! at the Phoenix Theatre in Leicester in 1965. The director was Richard Eyre, who began his acting and directing career there. To Idle's surprise he was asked to stay on for the next production, a Ray Cooney farce staged for Christmas audiences. But in it he proved the rightness of ...
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Zahawi: There must be an independent investigation to get to the bottom of this Cleverly: Dog ate my homework type excuses simply won't wash with the public Boris loan: He must come to Parliament to explain his murky finances Jane Dodds Responds to Cancelation of Young People's Village at the Royal Welsh Show Zahawi: There must be an independent investigation to get to the bottom of this Responding to the latest statement from Nadhim Zahawi on his tax affairs, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said: Zahawi and his Conservative Cabinet colleagues are arrogantly trying to brush this under the ...
Sunak fine: From partygate to seatbelt gate, Conservative politicians are taking British people for fools Research reveals squeezed middle facing biggest income tax hit in a decade Alarm as Number of Homeless Children in Wales Rises by 59% Sunak fine: From partygate to seatbelt gate, Conservative politicians are taking British people for fools Responding to the news that Rishi Sunak has been given a Fixed Penalty Notice for not wearing his seatbelt during a Lancashire visit, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said: Rishi Sunak has shown the same disregard for the rules as Boris Johnson, and now becomes ...
Like many living in Germany, the Federal Government's hesitancy in supplying weapons to Ukraine is not only puzzling to me, but frankly massively embarrassing. German profited massively from the Peace Dividend at the end of the cold war - and so reduced its spending on defence that the Bundeswehr is a shadow of its former self. Despite the clear threats to European stability, particularly after the Crimean annexation, previous governments, led by the Christian Democrats, had given little attention to active threats. The "traffic light" coalition government is itself divided on the provision of tanks to Ukraine. Ministers from the ...
Figures reveal 1,000 patients left waiting 12 hours or more in A&E every day in 2022 Analysis shows shocking rise in long A&E delays since 2015, when just 1,300 people waited 12 hours or more Lib Dems set out plan to tackle NHS crisis including recruiting more GPs and allowing pharmacists to prescribe more medicines A record 350,000 patients, equivalent to the population of Leicester, waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital from A&E in 2022. The figures were uncovered in new analysis by the Liberal Democrats showing a staggering rise in 12 hour delays at A&E ...
The Guardian publishes further evidence that the government has not learned lessons from the Windrush scandal with a report saying that the Home Office plans to reheat its "thoroughly discredited" hostile environment policies. The paper says that the government have announced that a taskforce is being set up to crack down on illegal immigration and, as well as blocking access to banking for those without immigration status, Ministers intend to find new ways of checking individuals' immigration status when they use schools or the NHS: The immigration minister Robert Jenrick is leading an intradepartmental group to limit many services for ...
The Guardian reports: A record 350,000 patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital from A&E last year [in England], according to figures that raise fears about unsafe care as the NHS faces further waves of strike action. The figures, uncovered in an analysis by the Liberal Democrats, show a steep rise in delays since 2015, when just 1,306 patients waited 12 hours. Senior doctors described the situation as "unbearable" for patients and staff, ahead of a strike in which thousands of ambulance workers will walk.. "The failure of the Conservative government to grip this crisis is ...
I've been away, which has come as something of a relief, it must be said. Admittedly, not much has changed since I went away – the people running our country still appear to have a restricted grasp of ethics and morality, the Opposition are still desperately attempting to avoid taking any firm position on very much, the lack of ideas for dealing with the huge challenges our country faces is still troubling. And I'm weary. Weary of trying to serve a nation where those in charge barely pay lip service to the idea that we have value, weary of attempting ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 23 JANUARY 2023 Glamis Drive - closed eastbound in 2 phases for 2 weeks for Scotland Gas Networks work. Phase 1: Hazel Avenue to Glamis Road. Phase 2: Invergowrie Drive to Hazel Avenue. Perth Road (at Pennycook Lane) - temporary traffic lights from Tuesday 10 January to Wednesday 25 January for bus shelter relocation. West Marketgait (Northbound) at Greenmarket (new BT development) - off‑peak (9.30am - 3.30pm) lane closure for 5 no water service connections commencing 16 January for 2 weeks. Riverside Drive ...
