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The Scottish Liberal Democrats report: We are proud to announce that our MSP candidate for Edinburgh Northern is Sanne Dijkstra-Downie. At the next Scottish Parliament election, boundary changes redraw Edinburgh Northern. It's clear that in that new seat, Sanne is the only person who will be able to challenge the SNP. The Edinburgh Reporter adds: Local councillor, Sanne Dijkstra-Downie, has been selected as the party's candidate for Edinburgh Northern at next year's Scottish parliamentary election. The seat has undergone significant boundary changes since the last Scottish Parliament election, with Ballot Box Scotland highlighting that Scottish Liberal Democrats won the area ...
Embed from Getty ImagesTom Kiernan. Delme Thomas. Stack Stevens. Jean Gachassin. Somewhere in my heart, it is always a winter Saturday and there are two Five Nations (as it then was) internationals on television. England are probably losing - in those days you did not so much support them as suffer with them. And if Wales are playing Ireland, it's impossible to tell the players apart in black and white. So I was pleased to hear that Max Wilkinson, the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for culture, media and sport has launched a campaign to keep the Six Nations on terrestrial television ...
Congratulations to the brilliant Sanne Dijkstra-Downie who has been selected for the target seat of Edinburgh Northern for the Scottish Parliament elections. I have known her for years and she has the biggest work ethic combined with wisdom, compassion and calmness. I really want to see her in Holyrood come the next elections in 2026. The new Edinburgh Northern seat has a large chunk of Alex Cole-Hamilton's current seat and we have beaten the SNP in its boundaries before. Alex will be standing in the redrawn Edinburgh Western which sees him retain many of his strongholds and take on the ...
Trump's 90-day freeze on foreign aid could be the precursor to the collapse of the UN, its corollary agencies, the World Bank, the IMF and the entire post-World War Two international order. These are not my words. They come from Sir Myles Wickstead, Britain's leading expert on development issues whom I spoke to on Friday. "The whole international system," said Sir Myles, "depends on each country paying its fair share based on their national income. If a major player like the US pulls out the entire edifice is endangered." He also said that many would die as an immediate result ...
[IMG: Frank Biederman] Lib Dem MP for North Devon Ian Roome, North Devon Council Leader David Clayton, Devon County Councillor Frank Biederman and Leader of Liberal Democrat Devon County Council Group Caroline Leaver. North Devon Liberal Democrats bring the news: Councillor Frank Biederman, who has been Devon County Councillor for Fremington Rural since 2013, has announced he will be joining the Liberal Democrat Group at Devon County Hall... Explaining his decision, Frank said: "This is not a decision I took lightly, but watching some terrible decisions get made by both the last government, and the ruling Conservative group at Devon ...
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The Guardian reports that the Tories are fighting back in an attempt to stem the loss of high-value donors amid a shift in funders towards Nigel Farage's Reform UK party. The paper says that the party's leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to appear at the Conservatives' London conference in Westminster on Saturday, where wealthy party donors say they have been invited to evening drinks: It comes after Reform's fundraiser in Mayfair on Tuesday which was attended by former Conservative donors including Bassim Haidar and Mohamed Amersi, who each paid £25,000 to join a top table with Farage. Sources in Reform ...
