"VAT on fruit juice and smoothies should be cut from 17.5% to 5% to help encourage healthy diets, the Lib Dem Treasury Chancellor, Vince Cable, told the party's spring conference in Liverpool. The cut in duty would be paid for by a rise in tax on some alcoholic drinks. "Such a tax could raise an estimated £200m", he said.
The Liberal Democrats are demanding the Government set up a full independent inquiry into British involvement with the US practice of 'extraordinary rendition'.
Dundee Liberal Democrats have today (Saturday 8th March) given their support to a campaign launched by party leader Nick Clegg against 'Faceless Britain', the Labour Westminster Government's increasing reliance on remote call centres to provide essential services, many to the most vulnerable citizens.
Kent Police is continuing to run Operation Stack on the M20 as the SeaFrance officers' strike continues. Police are operating phase two of Stack, which sees the closure of junctions 8 (Leeds Castle) to 9 (Ashford West) of the coastbound section of the M20.
The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference today backed measures to improve support for children with special educational needs (SEN).
The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference today backed plans to radically transform the NHS into a 'people's health service' by empowering individuals and decentralising control to local communities. The measures will set the NHS free from central government control, make it accountable to the people it serves through elected health boards and deliver high quality services to all guaranteed in a 'Patient's Contract'.