No fault-evictions: PM must deliver on his government's promises Welsh Lib Dems react to "farcical" rise in train fares Crumbling schools: Govt must stop sitting on its hands and speed up rebuilding No fault-evictions: PM must deliver on his government's promises Responding to figures that show no-fault evictions spiked by almost a third last year, Liberal Democrat Housing spokesperson, Helen Morgan MP said: Rishi Sunak's failure to bring forward the ban on no-fault evictions is having devastating consequences for vulnerable families across the country. No family should lose their home through no-fault of their own. Yet, under this Conservative government ...
Curzon Street was Birmingham's first railway station, served by Grand Junction Railway trains from Liverpool and Manchester and by London and Birmingham Railway trains from Euston. When Birmingham New Street was opened in 1854, it was relegated to being a goods station and survived in this form until the 1960s. Now the site is being redeveloped as the Birmingham terminus - indeed the Northern terminus - of HS2. It's Grade I Listed entrance building will form part of the new station. Jago Hazzard's video covers both its past and its future - you can support Jago's videos via his Patreon ...
NHS waiting lists: Sunak's broken pledge having "catastrophic impact" A&E waits: This Conservative government is a catastrophe for our NHS 17% spike in children's tooth extractions: If dental care under this Conservative government was a tooth, it would need extraction NHS waiting lists: Sunak's broken pledge having "catastrophic impact" The latest NHS figures show that waiting lists have grown by almost 400,000 to 7.6 million since Rishi Sunak made his pledge to cut them in January 2023. Commenting, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey MP said: Rishi Sunak has proven time and time again that he cannot be trusted to cut ...
The combined agenda and directory are out for the Liberal Democrat Spring Federal Conference, being held in York.
Rupert Matthews, the Conservative police and crime commissioner for Leicestershire and Rutland, has paid £250 to put up a Victorian-style police station blue lamp in Uppingham. "The blue lamp is an iconic piece of British policing history and symbolises not only law, order and justice, but safety and sanctuary," he told BBC News. Trouble is, there is no police station in Uppingham, and the inhabitants of Rutland's second city are far from impressed. Some of them spoke to Lincs Online: Uppingham resident Dan Marshall, 45, said: "There is a big difference between a local bobby occasionally using an office to ...
Sir Keir Starmer's decision to abandon Labour's policy of spending £28bn a year on a Green New Deal is shameful. However the shame applies not to Sir Keir or the Labour party - for them it is almost certainly prudent. The shame applies to the quality of Britain's public debate, in which the Conservative-leaning print media can be relied upon to sully decent policy emanating from an opposition party and the public broadcasters are cowed into soft-pedalling any enthusiasm for non-Conservative proposals for fear of further attacks on their funding. Given such dominance and subservience the Tories have succeed in ...
I switched on my car radio earlier this week and was surprised to hear a familiar voice. It was Paul Kohler, the Lib Dem PPC in our top target constituency of Wimbledon. In fact I had been in a meeting with him the evening before when he was talking about his campaigning strategies. But Paul was not engaging in a political debate on this occasion. Instead he was discussing a horrific incident that had involved him and his family some years ago. The series title is "Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line" and each programme features someone who has had ...
In perhaps the most-trailed u-turn in modern politics, Keir Starmer is finally set to abandon Labour's policy to spend £28bn a year on environmental projects. The Independent reports that the Labour leader is expected to confirm today that the pledge is being scaled back due to changes in the economic landscape since it was first unveiled in 2021. However, as the paper points out, this policy reversal comes just days after Starmer said £28bn of annual investment in green initiatives was "desperately needed" and that his support for the spending plan was "unwavering": But Sir Keir faced an immediate backlash, ...
Michael's ward surgeries take place today and every Thursday during school term time. They are as follows : Thursdays at 5.45pm prompt - West End Campus (come to reception area of St Joseph's RC and Victoria Park Primary Schools) Thursdays at 6.30pm prompt - Harris Academy reception area All welcome - no appointment necessary!
