Medway Liberal Democrats have selected Paul Chaplin to be their candidate for Gillingham and Rainham on June 8th. Having stood in the 2015 general election, Paul has the necessary experience to represent the constituency again in this snap General Election.
Food prices saw the biggest increase for three years in the year to March, figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.
Ahead of Jeremy Corbyn's visit to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Liberal Democrat shadow Chancellor Susan Kramer said:
Apart from the Royal School of Military Engineering established over 200 years ago, there are a few hundred ex-serving Sappers of the Corps who have settled in Medway from all parts of the country over the years, me being one of them.
Why I left Labour and joined the Liberal Democrats As many of you will know last year I was the Labour candidate in the Rainham Central by-election and had been a Labour Party member for some time. But times change as do sentiments and I never did feel quite like I belonged there.
First the government broke its manifesto commitment to stay in the Single Market, now they have broken their manifesto commitment to not raise tax. The Conservative government's plans to raise taxes on the self-employed will hit around 5100 people in Gillingham & Rainham who are already being hit with a Brexit squeeze on living standards. This is a tax on hard work, while companies will continue to save money by using workers without giving them the security and benefits of staff jobs.
