All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Following the publication of the damning Privileges Committee report, Liberal Democrat Scottish affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said Boris Johnson caused immeasurable damage to public trust in politics and that people are sick of Conservative sl
Speaking after the SNP and Greens voted down proposals to compensate islanders for the losses they have suffered as a result on the ongoing ferries fiasco, Scottish Liberal Democrat rural affairs and connectivity spokesperson Beatrice Wishart MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat deputy leader Wendy Chamberlain MP has today challenged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to agree to a charter of consumer rights for energy customers. She raised the case of a constituent who was wrongly billed almost £4,000 but three
Responding to Police Scotland announcing the appointment of its first female chief constable, Jo Farrell, who will replace Sir Iain Livingstone in August, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
The Liberal Democrats have called on Rishi Sunak to hold an emergency summit in Downing Street with banks and mortgage lenders to discuss support for homeowners on the brink, as cheaper deals are pulled from the market.
In a bizarre response to Willie Rennie, the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice said his question about the cost of ending child poverty was a “hypothetical” one.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
