Ed Davey has called on the Prime Minister to meet with the Falklands Governor, after President Trump announced tariffs of 41% on exports from the Falkland islands to the United States.
The Liberal Democrats have called on Rachel Reeves to hold an urgent summit with pension funds, banks and financial watchdogs to discuss the market turmoil since Trump’s tariffs and provide reassurance to British pensioners.
Responding to the Public Accounts Committee stating that the Dental Recovery Plan has “comprehensively failed” and that the dental contract “remains unfit for purpose”, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said:
Commenting on the Foreign Secretary’s reply in the Commons that he believes the Government should “move from freezing Russian assets to seizing them”, Alison Bennett MP said:
Responding to the Prime Minister's announcement that UK defence spending is to rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said:
Responding to NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard's resignation, Helen Morgan MP, Liberal Democrat Health and Care Spokesperson, said:
There were 49,112 tooth extractions for children in hospital in 2023/24, shocking new official figures have shown, the equivalent of 134 a day.
Liberal Democrat Leader and former energy secretary Ed Davey is calling on the Government to scrap the latest energy bill rise for the almost 10 million pensioners who’ve been stripped of their Winter Fuel Payments.
Since 2017/18 the Government has been topping up local authorities budgets to the tune of £47.1 billion to help pay for the burgeoning costs of social care with the yearly cash boost reaching close to £10 billion a year...
Commenting on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said:
New Home Office figures reveal that in the year ending September 2024, 269,237 shoplifting cases were closed without a suspect being identified in England and Wales - a shocking 19% increase from the previous year.
Commenting on reporting that Starmer has put an UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme on the table in his reset with Brussels, James MacCleary MP, Liberal Democrat Europe Spokeperson, said:
