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Davey on UK-EU Summit: PM must be ambitious and not "dragged back" by Badenoch and Farage
Ahead of the UK-EU Summit, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has urged the Prime Minister to be "bold and ambitious for our country" and ignore "dinosaurs fighting old battles" in Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage ...
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£5bn from Youth Mobility Scheme would give Government “nowhere to hide” on winter fuel payment, say Lib Dems
The Centre for European Reform claims that a Youth Mobility Scheme could add 0.45% to GDP over the long-term. New House of Commons Library analysis commissioned by the Liberal Democrats suggests that ...
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International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
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Record low number of frontline NHS staff receive flu jabs this winter as some areas see less than one in 10 vaccinated
A record low of 37% of frontline health service staff took up flu jabs this winter, with some areas seeing less than one in 10 receive the vaccine. This came as hospitals battled a surge in those ...
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Lib Dems urge Labour MPs to back closer trade with EU which could raise £25 billion a year and avoid welfare cuts
The Liberal Democrats have sent a letter to Labour MPs urging them to back closer trade ties with the EU to boost the public finances and avoid “savage” cuts to support for vulnerable families and ...
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Youth Mobility Scheme news a ‘glimmer of hope’
Responding to comments by the Prime Minister that a Youth Mobility Scheme could be part of a new UK-EU deal, Liberal Democrat Europe Spokesperson James MacCleary said: ...
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EFRA committee report: Government “must listen" and “ditch tax”
Responding to the EFRA committee’s report saying that the Government must rethink the family farm tax, Tim Farron MP, Liberal Democrat Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Spokesperson, said: ...
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Davey on European Political Community Summit: PM needs to be “bold and ambitious” but EU leaders need to “play ball”
"EU leaders need to play ball too. In the face of Trump's unpredictability and Putin's barbaric imperialism, it's vital that we deepen our cooperation across trade and defence - and prevent talks ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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 an ...