Including news from your Lib Dem local parties for South Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, Peterborough and Fenland
Welcome from your Liberal Democrat councillors and champions in Queen Edith’s Ward Cambridge City Council. We are sending this newsletter out approximately monthly to help keep you informed of what we’ve been up to and events within Queen Edith's.
The sun shone on our Summer BBQ this year, we all gathered to relax and celebrate the wins that Huntingdonshire have had over the last year.
Watch Pippa Heylings MP's maiden speech in full, given to the House of Commons on July 26th
A year ago I stood before you as the new Executive Leader of the Joint Administration for Huntingdonshire District Council.Twelve months on, and I am pleased to be able to update you on all that has been achieved in that time.
In one of their first votes in Parliament, the new Liberal Democrat MPs for Cambridgeshire have voted in support of an amendment to the King's Speech which would see action taken on sewage dumping, cost of living and the NHS
Pippa Heylings featured on ITV News on 23rd July, talking about her first few days as an MP
“Labour has ‘picked' at our call for electoral reform for its own self interest and ignored the main issue”, says Lib Dem Cllr Daniel Lee, who proposed that Cambridge City Council calls for the government to explore options for a fairer voting system.
Responding to the King’s Speech, Liberal Democrat MP for Ely & East Cambridgeshire, Charlotte Cane said: “Laws to start tackling the crisis in our mental health services and stop filthy sewage entering our rivers are welcome.
Fixing local health services must be at heart of government agenda.
Thank you for electing me as your Member of Parliament – it is an amazing honour to represent the constituency of Ely and East Cambridgeshire. I look forward to working with you and to representing our beautiful area at Westminster.
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, has granted permission for the Sunnica Solar farm on the Cambridgeshire/Suffolk border.
Cambridgeshire’s new Lib Dem MPs have written to the new Health Secretary calling on the government to use pledged new investment in GPs to ‘deliver a fairer GP funding formula for Cambridge’
