Nearly one in two (44%) people say they would never swim in the sea during the summer, with that number rising sharply by six-percentage points in just two years, despite the Government’s new target to halve sewage spills by 2030, a shocking new poll comm
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has called on the Prime Minister to host a Commonwealth economic summit to boost economic ties and stand with Canadian allies against Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Responding to news overnight that Donald Trump has written to major pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca and GSK, demanding lower drug prices in the US paid for by higher prices elsewhere, Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office Spokesperson Sarah Olne
The Liberal Democrats have called on the government urgently to bring in a ban on no fault evictions, after the latest homelessness figures revealed that 34,220 households were threatened with homelessness between October and December last year.
There has been a near 40% increase in the number of patients in need of “very urgent emergency care” making their own way to A&E over the past five years, Freedom of Information requests (FOIs) by the LiberalDemocrats have revealed.
The Liberal Democrats have called for swimming pools and leisure centres to be designated as “critical health infrastructure” to protect them from closure.
Nearly 250,000 shoplifting cases went unsolved across England and Wales - a shocking 47% increase from the previous year, analysis by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
New polling commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has led to the government being warned “the family GP is a thing of the past”, with people reporting to never see the same GP for every appointment.
At a Public Accounts Committee meeting last week, Home Office officials admitted that further £50 million will be paid to the Rwanda Government as soon as the Conservative’s Rwanda Bill is passed into law.
Responding to the latest figures showing that shoplifting has hit its highest level in over 20 years, LiberalDemocrat Home Affairs spokesperson, Alistair Carmichael MP said:
Some elderly patients were left waiting up to five days on trolleys in A&E last year, shocking figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats have shown.
The Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservative Government of overseeing an “unsolved crime epidemic” as new statistics reveal that more than 2 million crimes went unsolved in 2023, or 5,993 crimes on average every single day.
