Lib Dems call for COBRA meeting as Britain braces for second heatwave
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Government to hold an urgent COBRA meeting on this week's soaring temperatures.
30 Jun 2025
Press Releases
Press releases from the Lib Dem media team
Davey: welfare review must listen to the voice of carers
Ahead of the statement on the welfare bill later today, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has said the Government’s review of the Personal Independence Payments (PIP) must listen to groups representing family carers, as well as disability charities.
30 Jun 2025
Bob Vylan: hate speech has no place at Glastonbury or in society
Responding to Bob Vylan's performance at Glastonbury on Saturday, Liberal Democrat Culture, Media and Sport Spokesperson Max Wilkinson MP said:
29 Jun 2025
131,000 children in insecure housing scandal: Irreparable damage to life chances
Responding to the latest homelessness statistics, the Liberal Democrats have hit out at the government failure to get homelessness under control.
31 Jul 2023
Somerset by-election winner visits Mid Bedfordshire as odds slashed on another Lib Dem win
The Liberal Democrats are the bookies' favourite to win the Mid Bedfordshire by-election and take another Blue Wall seat from the Conservatives, with odds shortening since the party’s stunning by-election victory last week in Somerset.
31 Jul 2023
Rhodes: Sunak must chair COBRA meeting today
The Liberal Democrats have criticised the government for their refusal to show leadership over COBRA meeting.
25 Jul 2023
Unsolved burglaries soar to more than 580 a day
A staggering 213,279 burglaries went unsolved across England and Wales in the 2022/2023 financial year
25 Jul 2023
Rhodes Fires: Call to protect holidaymakers by adding to no travel list
Liberal Democrats are calling for an immediate addition of Rhodes to the Red List list of places the Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel
24 Jul 2023
Lib Dems demand GP rescue plan as one in six left waiting two weeks for appointment
One in six (16.5%) GP appointments had waits of two weeks or more over past year
24 Jul 2023
Ed Davey demands General Election to end Conservative circus at victory rally in Frome
In a victory rally to celebrate another stunning by-election result, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey, has demanded a general election to end the “Conservative circus.”
21 Jul 2023
Ed Davey: Somerton and Frome win shows Lib Dems “firmly back in the West Country”
Ed Davey has declared that the Liberal Democrats are “firmly back in the West Country,” after the party pulled off yet another historic by-election victory in Somerton and Frome.
21 Jul 2023
Somerton and Frome by-election could be a “watershed moment” for Lib Dems
Responding to the closing of polls in the three by-elections taking place today, Christine Jardine MP, Liberal DemocratCabinet Office Spokesperson said:
21 Jul 2023