Healey plans will "barely shift the dial" until Europe trade barriers dropped
Responding to Chancellor John Healey’s speech on economic growth and investment, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said:
7 Sep 2026
Press Releases
Press releases from the Lib Dem media team
JLR job cuts show Government growth mission "falling far short"
Responding to reports that Jaguar Land Rover is set to cut up to 4,000 jobs, Liberal Democrat Business spokesperson, Sarah Olney MP, said:
6 Sep 2026
Davey calls for £1bn farming lifeline and urgent Bluetongue taskforce to protect British food security
During a visit to a farm in Cumbria on Friday [4th September 2026], Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey will join Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson, Tim Farron MP to call on the Government to deploy a rapid taskforce to lead on Bluetongue vaccination
4 Sep 2026
NHS 2025 mandate: lack of ambition “falls so far short of the mark”
Responding to the Government’s 2025 mandate to NHS England, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said:
30 Jan 2025
Water bills: bill payers fronting up the costs for these firms failings is “scandalous”
Responding to water bills rising by £123 a year on average, Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson Tim Farron MP said:
30 Jan 2025
PMQs: Liberal Democrats demand new hospital construction dates be brought forward as affected patients watch on in Parliament
In a series of questions to the Prime Minister today, including from Leader Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats demanded that construction dates at the delayed new hospitals be brought forward to protect patients from crumbling buildings.
29 Jan 2025
Reeves speech: Chancellor’s “blinkered approach” on Europe is holding back British businesses
Responding to the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech on growth today, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
29 Jan 2025
Water Bill: Missed opportunity to stop customers footing bill for company failures
Labour and Conservative MPs have failed to back Liberal Democrat plans to protect customers from footing the bill for water company bailouts in a House of Commons vote this evening.
29 Jan 2025
WASPI: Government cannot face up to its “betrayal”
Responding to Labour and Conservative MPs abstaining on a vote to pave the way to get compensation to WASPI women, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
29 Jan 2025
Reeves speech: Boosting growth without fixing our trade with Europe like “driving with the handbrake on”
Ahead of the Chancellor’s speech today (Wednesday 29th), Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
29 Jan 2025
JRF poverty report: government has done next to nothing to tackle this “poverty pandemic”
Responding to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s annual poverty report which found almost one in three children in England will be in poverty by 2029, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
29 Jan 2025
Water Commission: Lib Dems call for an ACOBA investigation into former Thames Water executive's appointment
The Liberal Democrats have called for an urgent investigation by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) into the government’s appointment of a former Thames Water executive to its Water Commission.
28 Jan 2025