With a Prime Minister pandering to the extremists on the right of her party; delivering up the most divisive, extreme version of Brexit imaginable and Corbyn’s Labour Party sitting on its hands, letting the bumbling Tories off the hook – we are needed more than ever.

The world’s oceans are slowly turning into a plastic soup.

Unless we take action, plastic waste will continue to pollute our oceans with devastating effect.

We have all heard the reports of seabirds strangled by 6-pack rings and whales washing up with guts full of plastic, but did you know the average seafood consumers eats around 11,000 plastic particles a year?

Prawns with polystyrene anyone?

Today at PMQs, MPs debated extending the right to vote to 16-year-olds – and the debate showed one thing clearly.

I have spent much of the last six months travelling around England from Torquay to Tyneside, as well as several trips through Wales – where Jane Dodds is leading the charge to revive our fortunes – and a visit to Scotland, where Willie Rennie leads a great team.

What I have found is a party in good heart, mounting a sure, steady fightback to recover ground lost during the Coalition years.

And we are opening up new territory too, even in Leave supporting, Labour areas like Sunderland, Liberal Democrats are on the march.

The UK’s surveillance regime has once again been declared unlawful by the courts.