One Council for Gloucestershire - another update
The Government recently announced an unexpected pause in the process of creating a single unitary council for Gloucestershire. What will happen next ?
4 Oct 2026
National News
Hundreds of Scottish employment tribunals are taking years to resolve
Liberal Democrat Scottish Affairs spokesperson Susan Murray MP has today urged the UK Government to speed up the handling of Scottish employment tribunals as she revealed new figures showing that more than 1,200 tribunal cases have been open for more than
4 Oct 2026
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS SECURE ALL PARTY AGREEMENT ON PLANS TO IMPROVE LAMBETH COUNCIL WEBSITE AND RESIDENTS' ABILITY TO DO TRANSACTIONS ONLINE
The Liberal Democrats, at a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny committee on Thursday October 1st, secured all party agreement to seek to speed up improvement of the Council website's functionality for residents, and to involve residents and councillors.
CMB
3 Oct 2026
North Northamptonshire
ADHD Awareness Month campaign
Every Saturday this October, North Northamptonshire Liberal Democrats set out how we would fix ADHD support, from diagnosis to school.
AL
3 Oct 2026
McArthur presses Scottish Government over how it will exclude vape shops from rates relief
Scottish Liberal Democrat finance spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today pressed SNP ministers to set out how it intends to exclude vape shops from non-domestic rates relief.
3 Oct 2026
Brown-Fuller: "Something doesn't add up" with new Tory prison plans
Responding to the Conservative's plans to open 50,000 new prison places in 7 years, in part funded through cutting the International Aid budget to just 0.1% of GDP, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson Jess Brown-Fuller MP said:
2 Oct 2026