Inverness MP launches report on Highlands social care crisis
Angus MacDonald MP calls on the Scottish Government to provide a clear, targeted funding plan for the construction of four new care homes on the west coast
2 Apr 2025
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David Green
Campaigners secure Ministerial visit to Caithness maternity services
Following calls from campaigners, the Scottish Government’s Minister for Public Health and Women's Health Jenni Minto MSP has agreed to visit Caithness to meet with local residents who are worried about the lack of maternity services.
1 Apr 2025
David Green
Almost 1,300 violent incidents in Highland schools so far this year
Almost 1,300 violent incidents have been reported in schools across the Highland Council area in the current school year alone, statistics revealed by the Scottish Liberal Democrats have shown.
24 Mar 2025
Visitor tax, nice idea but flawed
Angus MacDonald MP sets out his views on the Tourist Visitor Levy proposed by the Highland Council and concludes it is an idea that has merits but is fundamentally flawed.
18 Dec 2024
David Green
First Minister urged to face the dangerous realities of Highland healthcare
The First Minister John Swinney has been invited to travel the distance between Caithness and Inverness to experience for himself the distance that patients have to travel for vital healthcare.
16 Dec 2024
Angus confirms he will vote against assisted dying
Angus MacDonald MP reconfirms his concerns about the proposed assisted dying legislation
28 Nov 2024
Scottish News
Nationalists in shambles as GERS figures make case for UK ties
Liberal Democrat Scottish Affairs spokesperson Susan Murray MP has today said that today’s GERS statistics published by the Scottish Government leave the nationalists in a shambles as they revealed that expenditure per person was £2,669 higher in Scotland
13 Aug 2025
Wendy Chamberlain MP calls for swift compensation for those mis-sold car finance
Wendy Chamberlain, Scottish Liberal Democrat deputy leader and MP for North East Fife, has urged the Government and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to work together to swiftly deliver a compensation scheme that will see lenders who mis-sold car fina
13 Aug 2025
Cole-Hamilton: Stroke report another SNP health scandal
Responding to a new report which found that only around half of the 11,000 Scots who had a stroke last year got access to the appropriate care, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
12 Aug 2025
Scottish Lib Dems respond to Sturgeon memoir
Responding to the release of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir, Liberal Democrat Scottish affairs spokesperson Susan Murray MP said:
12 Aug 2025
Scot Lib Dems write to health secretary over care home closures
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton and candidate for Edinburgh Northern councillor Sanne Dijkstra-Downie have written to the Scottish Government asking for them to assist in finding alternative operators to take over two Edinburgh care ho
11 Aug 2025
Cole-Hamilton: No consequences for sewage dumping in Scotland under the SNP
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton today said that under the SNP “there are never any consequences for sewage dumping in Scotland” as new analysis by his party drew comparisons between sewage dumping by Scottish Water and Anglian Water, w
11 Aug 2025
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