Public Accounts Committee SEND Report: Urgent reform needed Inflation: economy is "stuck in the mud" PMQs: Davey urges PM to create visa route to attract high-skilled Americans fleeing Trump Davey: Israel-Gaza ceasefire must lead to a lasting peace and two-state solution Public Accounts Committee SEND Report: Urgent reform needed Responding to the PAC report on SEND provision, Munira Wilson MP, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson, said: This report lays bare what we already knew to be the dire truth: that a wrecked system of SEND provision in this country is failing children and families every single day. And thanks to the ...
Wales rail runding letter - more than warm words needed David Chadwick challenges UK Government over proposals to extend waiting times for Powys patients Wales rail runding letter - more than warm words needed Responding to a letter sent by Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens and Transport Minster Heidi Alexander to First Minister Eluned Morgan regarding Welsh rail funding, Welsh Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesperson David Chadwick MP said: More than warm words are needed to fix Welsh railways. This statement doesn't commit to any specific extra funding and doesn't commit to the full devolution of our railways, which is what is ...
This is another of the columns I write for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy - you can read more about the JCPCP on the Egalitarian Press site. I believe this column, on this blog's hero Richard Jefferies, was published a few issues ago. Richard Jefferies: The granddaddy of nature writers Nature writers lived for decades in the shadow of Evelyn Waugh's William Boot, author of the Daily Beast's 'Lush Places' column: "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole." But today Boot would get a respectful mention in a Guardian survey of the new nature writing ...
They say that to be a Liberal you have to be an incorrigible optimist. Yet, even with a record number of Lib Dem MPs, it's hard to be optimistic in a global political environment witnessing the onward march of populism. But what if discovering a seam of hope and optimism and representing it in British politics was in fact the best way of countering the rise of populism? With a tired and irresponsible government making way after 14 years for a new administration with an awful inheritance that's made some errors in its first few months, it's difficult to see ...
Embed from Getty ImagesThe Liberal Democrats have two strategic objectives in this parliament. One is to be a better opposition than the Conservatives by focusing on issues of substance, like social care reform, rather than ones of style or personality. The second is to embed our new MPs as local champions, so that even voters profoundly disillusioned with Westminster will welcome their achievements in their communities. That's according to George Eaton writing on the New Statesman website. He goes on to say: From an electoral perspective, the Lib Dems' aim is to "finish the job" in the Blue Wall. Of ...
A group of Liberal Democrats have called on Keir Starmer to back Lib Dem MP Roz Savage's Climate and Nature Bill when it comes up in Parliament on 24 January. In a letter signed by 58 MPs and Peers they say: We, Liberal Democrats, commend your and the Government's determination to elevate the UK's global climate and nature leadership. However, without legislation that unites our climate and nature plans, they will continue to be developed in isolation. This means your clean energy and nature restoration ambitions may fail—and, equally worryingly—may make both crises worse. There is, however, a golden opportunity ...
Many thanks to all the residents who recently contacted us about the deteriorated state of the roadway of Colinton Place - see photos. We raised this with the council's Roads Maintenance Partnership to ensure repairs are carried out and this has since taken place.
The Independent reports on comments by Britain's security minister that millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been handed to cyber criminals in recent years. The paper says that Dan Jarvis has suggested that hostile actors could have extorted thousands from organisations like the NHS without the Government knowing because there is no mandatory reporting regime. Now the Home Office has launched a consultation on how to crack down on ransomware, with plans under consideration to ban all public sector bodies from making any payments: Proposals also include a mandatory reporting regime and payment prevention system, designed to increase the ...
