Liberal Democrats

1 week ago | libdems.org.uk | Ed Davey |Christine Jardine

Today marks the beginning of Pride Month - an important opportunity to celebrate and stand in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities in the UK and across the world. I know that for many, Pride will feel different this year. It hasn’t been an easy time for many LGBTQ+ people lately, to put it mildly. And I understand why it may feel like there is little to celebrate right now.

2 weeks ago | libdems.org.uk | Mark Pack

Thank you…It is always good to start with thanking colleagues, and this month marked the final full council for Gareth Morgan. He has served an amazing 52 (!) years as a councillor, having been first elected to then Montgomery County Council in 1973 as a Liberal. Given all the political ups and downs for our party and its predecessors in the years since, that is a particularly impressive run. It is also a run that enabled Gareth to do so much good for local residents’ and for promoting our values.

3 weeks ago | libdems.org.uk | Lisa Smart |Ed Davey

On Monday, Liberal Democrats forced a vote in the House of Commons on a policy that would scrap the ban on asylum seekers working if they had waited for a decision on their claim for 3 months. Sadly, it was blocked by an alliance of Conservative, Labour and Reform MPs – all voting against the national interest just so they could appear anti-immigration.

1 month ago | libdems.org.uk | Mark Pack

Thank you and good luckDue to an impressive collective effort, our candidate tally for this May’s elections is our best showing since May 2009. That is, the proportion of seats we are contesting this time, compared with the proportion Labour and the Conservatives are contesting, is the best since before the 2010 Coalition government. We still have more progress to go to get to matching their numbers of candidates, but this year is another important step forward.

1 month ago | libdems.org.uk | Ed Davey

Donald Trump has launched a senseless, destructive trade war that threatens the jobs and living standards of people here in the UK, in the United States, and around the world. Trump loves tariffs – he even says it’s “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”! But as Liberals, we profoundly disagree. Don’t forget: it was the Victorian Liberals who overturned centuries of protectionism and ushered in a new era of free trade and prosperity.