All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
Renewables have long been hailed as the saviour of the Highland economy, with one SNP Minister declaring that Scotland would become the Saudi Arabia of renewables.
The healthcare sector in the Highlands is suffering from inflationary pressures, especially in medicines and staff costs, an ageing population and a lack of younger healthcare professionals in more rural areas.
I am certain that the A82 is far more dangerous and frightening than the A9.
I have been a Highland Councillor for eight months now and am really enjoying it, learning about issues at schools, roads, the local economy and care sector, amongst many other subjects.
The care sector, especially in the Highlands, is in crisis. It's facing the same combination of extreme cost increases as hospitality, however its situation is far worse.
There is barely a café, pub or hotel that is not desperately seeking staff across the Highlands this summer. And we all have horror stories of new employees not turning up for their first day at work, or being seduced by a higher pay offer elsewhere.
Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Jamie Greene has today called on the Scottish Government to do more to help the one in five Scots who currently find themselves not in education, employment or training.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Shetland Beatrice Wishart has today revealed the brutal extent of the SNP’s farming scandal, as she highlighted that fewer than 1 in 10 small farmers and crofters received funding from a botched Scottish Government scheme
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has said that his party is turning the screws on the SNP in the Highlands, as the Liberal Democrats stormed to victory in the Fort William by-election today.
As he campaigns in Peebles today, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton unveiled the party’s full sweep of candidates for the South of Scotland, and urged voters to use their second, peach-coloured ballot paper to back them at next May’s ele
Responding to the tabling of votes of no confidence in Justice Secretary Angela Constance, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP commented:
Responding to an embargoed report from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland which calls on Police Scotland to publish a clear policy on drug harm reduction, noting that while some progress had been made in tackling drug harms, “significant gaps rem
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Families who remortgaged in 2023 are facing a mortgage bombshell of almost £9bn this year, with commuter belt areas in the Blue Wall hardest hit, new analysis commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
