Liberal Democrats are celebrating winning all five county council seats wholly in the Chelmsford parliamentary constituency in the local elections held on 4th June. Councillors Tom Smith-Hughes, Mike Mackrory and Maureen Miller were re-elected, and Jude Deakin and Margaret Hutchon were elected to the county council for the first time.
Cllr Barry Aspinell and Cllr David Kendall have both been elected as County Councillors, for Brentwood North and Brentwood South divisions respectively.
Liberal Democrats are celebrating after they gained four more County Council seats - three from the Conservatives and one from Labour - within the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has called on the Government to start "treating our pensioners with the respect they deserve." Paul, who is the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Works and Pensions, was speaking out at the 11th Annual Pensioner's Parliament held this week in Blackpool.
Voting for the local and European elections has now closed. Counting for the Bedford Borough Council elections begins tomorrow at 9.30am. bedfordlibdems.org.uk will have the latest election results news tomorrow as it happens, with the first results expected later on in the morning. Counting for the European election takes place on Sunday.
The Lib Dems' Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Edward Davey MP, has written to William Hague detailing some of the widespread charges of racism, homophobia and climate change denial made against the Conservatives' allies, the Polish Law and Justice Party and its European Parliament candidates.
