Lib Dem MPs call for 5th March Cornish bank holiday
From the Business Cornwall website comes news that the five MPs who represent Cornwall, Lib Dems all, have joined forces to campaign for St Piran’s Day to be made a public holiday: North Cornwall MP,...
View ArticleLib Dem MP attempts to create devolved ‘Cornwall Assembly’
A few months ago, Lib Dem Voice highlighted North Cornwall MP Dan Rogerson’s attempts to create a new Cornish bank holiday on 5th March, St Piran’s Day. Well now he’s taken up cudgels again on behalf...
View ArticleLiberal Democrats hold Kingsbrook, Bedford Borough Council
Andy Gerard has been elected the new Councillor for Kingsbrook ward in Bedford. (Pictured above with Councillor Anita Gerard, Bedford Mayor Dave Hodgson and PPC for Bedford and Kempston, Henry Vann.)...
View ArticleRogerson and Teather: pupil premium will help all children
Today the coalition Government announced that plans for a Pupil Premium will go ahead, targeting funding at schools that take pupils from deprived backgrounds. The premium, a key part of the Liberal...
View ArticleLord Tyler writes: Don’t listen to the doomsayers
Since the publication of the Government’s White Paper and Draft Bill on House of Lords reform, the old guard have lined up to cavil about its detail, to deride its democratic principles and to defend –...
View ArticlePoverty and achievement: breaking the link – Sarah Teather’s speech to...
Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat Minister of State for Children and Families, gave this speech yesterday to Liberal Democrat conference: “Education… beyond all other devices of human origin, is the...
View ArticleDan Rogerson MP writes… Welcoming help with water bills in the South West
This week, as part of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, details of a Water Bills Rebate Fund were announced, with a £50 rebate to be provided on water bills for households in Cornwall and other South...
View ArticleIn other news… Hemming “resignation threat”, Rogerson on second home tax,...
MP John Hemming’s fury over ‘cover-ups’ (Daily Express) A LIB Dem MP threatened to resign the party whip last night and sit as an independent unless child protection was treated “more seriously”. John...
View ArticleTeather, Rogerson, Beith and Huppert speak against new family migration rules
Last week I wrote about a new report, contributed to by Liberal Democrats Sarah Teather and Sally Hamwee, which outlined the heartbreak and suffering the new family migration rules are causing. The...
View Article“Devonwall” seat proposal – the government ignore Cornish pride at their peril
The Strand, Bude, Cornwall On Wednesday I was lucky enough to be in a choir leading the singing of “Trelawny” in an ancient Cornish church. “Trelawny” or “The Song of Western Men” is the “unofficial...
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