King's Speech: Fixing NHS and care must be a priority Welsh Lib Dems call for First Minister to go Rennie: Scotland needs good governance, not SNP chaos Rennie comments on ferry contract decision King's Speech: Fixing NHS and care must be a priority Commenting ahead of the King's Speech tomorrow, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said: Years of chaos under the Conservatives have left us with a stagnant economy and health services in a state of crisis. Millions of people are stuck on NHS waiting lists and struggling to get the care they need to return to work. Fixing the ...
Embed from Getty ImagesLady Maud Montgomery, nee Farrar, wife of Bishop Montgomery and mother of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, out shopping in Moville, Ireland. A barefoot young boy helps her with her purchases. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1556 - Lady Montgomery Goes Back Home - pub. 1943 (Photo by Leonard McCombe/Getty Images) The camera never lies, which is why someone tweeted this photograph and its blurb from Getty Images, adding "No words." Except, as a couple of replies to that tweet and to people who commented on it show, there are words, and those words show the picture ...
Our Headline of the Day Award sees a rare victory for the Ludlow & Tenbury Wells Advertiser, which has pictures of the stain. The judges advise everyone to be careful when drinking tea as they don't mess about at East Midlands Airport.
The Guardian reports that Ed Davey will appear before the Post Office Horizon inquiry this Thursday, with Vince Cable and Jo Swinson appearing later this month: Ed Davey hit the headlines for falling off a paddleboard, bungee jumping and Zumba dancing as part of his unconventional election campaign. But the Liberal Democrat leader's attention-grabbing stunts paid off when his newly resurgent party won 72 seats, its highest total since 1923. Fresh from his triumph, Davey will be in the spotlight for a more sombre reason on Thursday, as he testifies to the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT ...
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Jane Ashdown, the widow of the former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, has been talking to Somerset Live about her delight at the general election result: "I can't wipe the grin off my face - it means everything. I just wish Paddy was here to see it and to celebrate. "He would have been especially thrilled to see two Lib Dems elected locally, Adam [Dance] in Yeovil and Sarah [Dyke] in Glastonbury and Somerton. But his interest was in the whole party. He would be gobsmacked at the national result - just speechless, which didn't happen very often. "Paddy would ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls – indicates that party didn't feature in the polling questions separate from 'Others' or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change since the previous ...
Over on the Guardian, our new MP for Chichester, Jess Brown-Fuller, provides diary of her first week as an MP: On Wednesday I had the opportunity to "swear in" - taking my oath of allegiance to the crown - and officially take my seat in parliament, which was a particularly special moment in the day. I then hit the ground running by writing a letter to the environment secretary on pressing matters affecting Chichester, organising meetings for the weekend to discuss sewage and water quality, dealing with media inquiries, supporting residents and, last but not least, trying to remember where ...
I confess I didn't expect it to happen so soon, but Nation Cymru reports that Vaughan Gething has resigned as First Minister following weeks of controversies and a mass walk out by his cabinet. His resignation comes after four Welsh ministers stepped down from their posts in an apparently calculated move to force his hand. In a move reminscent of the coup against Boris Johnson, Counsel General Mick Antoniw, Cabinet Secretary for Economy Jeremy Miles, Cabinet Secretary for Housing Julie James and Cabinet Secretary for Culture Lesley Griffiths posted separate letters on social media on Tuesday morning in which they ...
"Travelling to Russia to meet the head of a government under EU sanctions, which has disregarded the territorial integrity of another state, is unprecedented. Doing so in the week Hungary has taken over the rotating Council presidency is bulldozing the norms of the presidency as set out by the EU treaties." Armida van Rij says Viktor Orbán is using Hungary's EU Council presidency to bulldoze EU norms. Jess Brown-Fuller, the new Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester, describes her first week at Westminister: "The parliamentary estate consists of more than 3 miles of corridors, 1,000 rooms and 100 staircases. Any MPs ...
Now that the election is over, and we have successfully made inroads into the Conservative Blue Wall, it's time to reflect and learn from our past. Moving forward, it's crucial that we balance our national progressive platform with the needs of our Blue Wall constituents. We must navigate this balance with confidence, avoiding the pitfalls of timidity that have hindered us in the past. In a landscape marked by fragmented politics and widespread distrust, we can't afford to be complacent. Our victories in this election were not isolated as an endorsement alone but were also influenced by a split on ...
The Conservative weekly declarable donations total for the 2024 election was barely more than that for Reform or the Lib Dems.
Just a reminder that as it is the school holidays, Fraser's usual ward surgeries do not take place today. However, we can be contacted at any time on Dundee 459378 or by e-mail at westend@dundeelibdems.org.uk
With the Kings speech imminent and a legislative programme of about thirty five bills predicted, none of them is more important than the single reform that will help to alleviate child poverty in this country. The Guardian reports that the first real test of Labour's hardline approach to public spending is the two-child benefit limit introduced by the Conservatives in April 2017. This prevents households from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for a third or any subsequent child born after this date: For good reason, the two-child limit is loathed by many Labour MPs because while having no ...
