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
Lib Dems move to quash sell-out law allowing foreign stakes in UK newspapers
Following the revelation that the Labour Government will legislate to allow foreign states to own up to 15% of British newspapers, the Liberal Democrats will move to dismantle the new rules via a Fatal Motion – a rare parliamentary device that would...
15 May 2025
Sneaky Kemi needs to “take head out of the sand” on EU
Following Kemi Badenoch’s speech to the International Democracy Union, James MacCleary MP, Liberal Democrat Europe Spokesperson, said:
15 May 2025
GDP: Govt must now use UK-EU summit to boost growth
Responding to GDP growth of 0.2% for March and 0.7% over Q1 of 2025, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
15 May 2025
Health Foundation social care report: Government’s “embrace of dither and delay” will see taxpayers “foot an ever growing bill”
Responding to a report from the Health Foundation, which showed that just preventing a further deterioration of social care will cost the government £9.1 bn by 2034/35, Liberal Democrat Care and Carers spokesperson, Alison Bennett MP said:
15 May 2025
Lib Dems say shocking hospital wait stats should “shake us to our core”
Responding to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimating that there were more than 16,600 deaths of patients linked to long waits in A&E for hospital beds last year, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said:
15 May 2025
Lib Dems call for a critical incident to be declared after unsafe maternity unit in Somerset forced to closed
Maternity services in Yeovil are to close for at least six months after a warning from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), a situation that has prompted local Liberal Democrat MP Adam Dance to call for a critical incident to be declared warning that it...
14 May 2025
PAC medical negligence report: staggering sums lay bare a health service that is “not functioning”
Responding to the Public Accounts Committee report, which condemned the ‘astronomical’ fees paid to medical negligence lawyers, Liberal Democrat Hospitals and Primary Care spokesperson Jess Brown-Fuller MP said:
14 May 2025
Vet MP meets rescue animals at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home as PMB on track to become law
Winchester MP and veterinary surgeon, Dr Danny Chambers, visited Battersea Dogs & Cats Home today [Tuesday 13th May] to discuss his Animal Welfare Bill and meet rescue dogs who have suffered from the abuses his bill aims to stop.
13 May 2025
Thames Water is "putting profit before public good" as CEO reveals they received a staggering 156% bonus
Responding to Thames Water bosses’ appearance before the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee today, the Liberal Democrats have said that the company is “putting profit before public good” and branded their executive bonuses “outrageous”.
13 May 2025