Thames Water fines: Govt should stop “wheeling and dealing” and finally put customers first
Responding to Ofwat staving off fines for the imperilled Thames Water, Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat Environment Spokesperson, said:
27 Aug 2025
Press Releases
Press releases from the Lib Dem media team
Farage u-turn shows he “has taken as much time reading his own plan as he does his constituents’ emails”
Responding to Nigel Farage appearing to u-turn today on his announcement yesterday where he suggested that women and children would be included in Reform’s deportation plans, a Liberal Democrat spokesperson said:
27 Aug 2025
Mounjaro supply chaos: Lib Dems call for CMA investigation
Responding to reporting by LBC that the US manufacturer of Mounjaro will halt UK orders of the drug following Trump’s attempts to encourage America’s drug manufacturers to increase their prices in foreign markets, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care s
27 Aug 2025
Ed Davey convenes “sewage summit” with council leaders as figures reveal spills by local authority
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey will today convene a sewage summit with Lib Dem council leaders, to discuss plans to take water companies and the government to task over the sewage discharges.
9 May 2024
Waiting lists: PM would be "deluded to think that this is a NHS in recovery"
Responding to the latest NHS data which shows waiting lists to be 7.54 million, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson, Daisy Cooper MP said:
9 May 2024
Ed Davey urges PM to back “Ann’s Law” to stop care home abuse
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey urged Rishi Sunak to back the campaign for “Ann’s Law” to clamp down on abuse in care homes.
9 May 2024
New sewage funding: Loose change compared to water firm profits
Responding to the government announcing just £11million between 180 river clean up projects, Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson Tim Farron MP said:
9 May 2024
Jenrick and Farage: Not even a week on from Local Elections it is more Conservative chaos
Responding to former immigration minister Robert Jenrick saying that he "would not oppose" Nigel Farage coming back into the Conservative party, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said:
9 May 2024
870,000 households face mortgage rate hike by November as Sunak in “parallel universe” on the economy
Average of 4,200 households a day are set to see their mortgages rise between now and November.
9 May 2024
MoD: Lib Dems call for inquiry following hack
The Liberal Democrats have called for an official inquiry into the security of the Ministry of Defence’s personal data following a reported major hack.
9 May 2024
Ed Davey to table no confidence motion to force June General Election
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey will table a motion of no confidence in the Government as soon as Parliament returns tomorrow, in a bid to force a June general election following Rishi Sunak’s terrible local election results.
9 May 2024
Three in four burglaries go unsolved in 2023
New analysis of Home Office statistics by the Liberal Democrats has shown that a staggering 215,933 burglaries went unsolved across England and Wales in 2023 - an average of 592 a day.
9 May 2024