FPC members started the year bright and early with our first meeting last week. We cancelled our December meeting so we could all focus on North Shropshire, so this was our first meeting since November. Big areas of focus for … read more
In 2021 we achieved something we’ve not achieved since 1993: winning two Parliamentary by-elections in the same year off the Conservatives. We start this new year with a larger Parliamentary Party than any of us would have dared dream of … read more
Liberal Democrats have and always will support public health protections that work but the use of so called “vaccine passports” provides a false sense of security. The Government has lost sight of why they put forward these measures in the … read more
I’ve often said history points to two routes for Liberal Democrat (and before that Liberal Party) revivals. One, which we’d much rather avoid, is a foreign disaster – Iraq, former Yugoslavia, Suez… The other is seizing electoral opportunities outside Westminster … read more
The scenes of people trying to cross the Channel demand urgent action. They also show that the Government’s approach isn’t working. in her two years as Home Secretary, Priti Patel has only made the problem worse.” These crossings are incredibly … read more