Citizens Advice: pensioners had "legs cut out from underneath them" after Winter Fuel Payment scrapped Local election delays: Lib Dems accuse Conservative councils of "running scared" and "silencing democracy" Reeves in China: Chancellor needs to return and announce "plan B" for growth Cole-Hamilton calls for network of drug consumption rooms ahead of Glasgow facility opening Citizens Advice: pensioners had "legs cut out from underneath them" after Winter Fuel Payment scrapped Responding to Citizens Advice saying that they have seen a surge in households seeking help with energy bills in 2024, Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions spokesperson Steve Darling MP said: ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. 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 PollsterConLabLDGrnRefLab leadFieldwork Find Out Now 20% (-3) 25% (-1) 11% (nc) 11% (+2) 25% (nc) 0% (over Ref.) 8/1 GB More in Common 26% (nc) 26% ...
We are starting the starting the year strong with a gain in North Devon DC, the only by-election held this week. In the Instow ward, Cllr Becky Coombs, who previously stood an independent, represented the Lib Dems this time around and came first comfortably over the Tories! Congratulations to Becky and the North Devon team for the win. North Devon DC, Instow Liberal Democrat (Becky Coombs): 197 (38.1%, new) Conservative: 166 (32.1%, +1.8%) Reform: 88 (17.0%, new) Independent: 49 (9.5%, new) Green Party: 17 (3.3%, -11.1%) For a full summary of these results, and all other principal council by-elections, please ...
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Michael Mullaney condemns Tory plan to cancel Leicestershire County Council's elections
Michael Mullaney, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Leicestershire County Council, has condemned the Conservatives decision to seek government permission to cancel this years elections for the council. He told Leicestershire Live: "People have a right to go and vote in May's elections. Cancelling them is just a way for the county council's Conservative leadership to try and rush through their plans to see boroughs and districts abolished. "To create a huge super authority, containing most of Leicestershire and possibly Rutland too, would see decision making taken further away from people's lives. These plans are not about devolving power ...
Read on Substack Follow the link to Substack to hear Aaron Ellis interviewing Carl Cashman, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Liverpool City Council and surely a rising star of the party. The blurb for this interview with one of the party's rising stars runs: Carl Cashman is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Liverpool. He does what Sir Ed Davey hopes to do nationally — be the official opposition to Labour. Aaron and Carl discuss the actual differences between the two progressive parties, if the LibDems should give up ground on the centre-left in order to win ...
Tuesday morning. First day back for quite a few people, as a number of schools across Hertfordshire had an INSET day on Monday, 6th January. Our household was no different. Although I returned to work on Thursday, 2nd January, the rest of my family started their various work and school commitments the day after, on Tuesday, 7th January. We live in a beautiful Welwyn Garden City, however my daughter goes to a Catholic school in St Albans. We have to pay for a private bus as the public bus provision is not always the best. We accept it; it was ...
It's Saun Dann from the Star Wars Holiday Special
Helen Coffey argues that The Traitors, where intelligence is a hindrance that should be hidden at all costs, is a metaphor for society's increasing suspicion towards, and rejection of, intellect, especially when it comes to those in charge. "It's really nice when we get people through the yard - the positives far outweigh the negatives ... Farms are very isolated places. It used to be tens of people working on this farm and now it's just me and my husband."Patrick Barkham meets some of the growing number of farmers who are joining forces with right-to-roam campaigners to boost public access ...
One principal authority council by-election this week and it is one where the voters don't seem to have got the memo from the Westminster political bubble about how politics is meant to be all about culture warring populists of rival right wing parties. The voters instead didn't go populist, they went liberal, or rather Liberal Democrat: Instow (North Devon) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 38.1% (New) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 32.1% (+1.8) [IMG: ➡] RFM: 17.0% (New) [IMG: 🙋] IND: 9.5% (New) [IMG: 🌍] GRN: 3.3% (-11.1)No INDs (-26.2, -15.9, -4.0) or LAB (-9.2) as previous.Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.Changes ...
Dundee Civic Trust's first public talk of 2025 takes place next Thursday - 16th January - at 7pm at the Dundee Art Society Gallery in Roseangle. Professor Fionn Stevenson will speak about 'Earth, timber, hemp and straw: the better way to build today'. Buildings account for 40% of global carbon emissions today, and are drastically increasing climate change. How can we build more benignly? Biogenic construction offers an alternative set of robust materials to challenge the dominance of steel and concrete which are a major source of pollution. This talk will introduce you to international and local exemplar buildings and ...
The Independent reports that Liz Truss has sent Sir Keir Starmer a cease and desist letter, warning him to stop saying she "crashed the economy". The paper says that the former prime minister's lawyers have said the remarks - made since the lead-up to the general election - are likely to "cause serious harm to her reputation", claiming they are "false and defamatory". The paper adds that the former Prime Minister's lawyers also suggest that assertions made by the Labour leader before the July general election contributed to Ms Truss losing her South West Norfolk seat: Sir Keir has repeatedly ...
