Ed Davey: Trump must come “face to face” with UK steel workers
Commenting on the beginning of Donald Trump’s state visit, Ed Davey Leader of the Liberal Democrats said:
17 Sep 2025
Press Releases
Press releases from the Lib Dem media team
Lib Dems: Badenoch’s refusal to condemn Musk’s dangerous rhetoric is “cowardly”
Responding to Kemi Badenoch’s recent LBC appearance, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said:
17 Sep 2025
Lib Dems warn Government risks plunging country into a “new era of stagflation”
Responding to inflation remaining at 3.8%, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
17 Sep 2025
“Bottler’s Budget”: Hunt and Sunak slammed for running scared of May General Election
The Liberal Democrats have branded today’s statement as a “Bottler’s Budget,” after Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt seem to have ducked a May general election in a desperate attempt to cling on to power.
6 Mar 2024
Budget: Rishi’s recession followed by Hunt’s hangover
Responding to the Spring Budget, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey MP said:
6 Mar 2024
Donelan must pay libel action costs herself
The Liberal Democrats have called on Science Minister Michelle Donelan to pay the damages and legal costs relating to academic Prof Kate Sang's libel action against her herself.
6 Mar 2024
Donelan legal payments: Lib Dems demand Cabinet Office inquiry
The Liberal Democrats have called for a Cabinet Office inquiry into reports that Science Minister Michelle Donelan's department paid her damages and legal costs relating to academic Prof Kate Sang's libel action against her.
6 Mar 2024
Embargoed budget trail: The Conservatives are the great tax swindlers
Responding to the Chancellor's embargoed budget trail, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:
6 Mar 2024
Lords Rwanda Bill votes: "Morally bankrupt government" defeated five times
Responding to the series of five heavy defeats for the government on their Rwanda Bill in the House of Lords this evening, which saw several Conservative peers voting against the government’s position, LiberalDemocrat Leader in the Lords Dick Newby said:
6 Mar 2024
Ed Davey visits Chancellor's seat ahead of Budget as GP funding in Surrey slashed by £10 million
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey will today (Tuesday 5th March) visit a GP surgery in the Chancellor’s Godalming and Ash constituency ahead of the Budget to demand that Hunt cancel his planned real terms NHS spending cuts.
6 Mar 2024
IFS NHS spending analysis: What this govt has done to health services is scandalous
Responding to IFS analysis revealing that the planned 1.2% real terms cut in day-to-day NHS spending would be the largest reduction since the 1970s, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney MP said:
6 Mar 2024
National Insurance tax cuts to be wiped out by £880 of stealth tax hikes
Stealth tax hikes will cost the average household in England twice as much as what they’ll get from this year’s national insurance cut, new research commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
6 Mar 2024