Vice Pres
@ALDE
since 2019. 👨🦼Lib Dem Health & Social Care spokes House of Lords 2020-22. Lib Dem President 2015-19. Retweets/likes not endorsement. She/Her
An honour to give my maiden speech as
#Eastbourne
’s MP, where I:
👶👶Called on the Government to scrap the two-child benefit cap
👦🏾🧓🏻Shared my family’s story of why Eastbourne is the most compassionate place there is.
🏖️Competed with Nigel Farage on the size of our piers…😂
Three Women in Iran Face Execution Amid Global Silence
As the world’s attention remains riveted on the upcoming American elections, three Iranian women—Sharifeh Mohammadi, Pakhshan Azizi, and Nasim Gholami—stand on the brink of execution.
While political campaigns of Kamala
The first PMQs for 14 years with a Labour Prime Minister… and asking the first question Oxfordshire
#LibDem
MP
@CalumMillerLD
(spoiler.. it’s about Thames Water..)
This is very important research by
@MOPACLdn
, and I hope both Ministers, the justice system and Police Chiefs take it seriously and act on it. Thank you,
@LDNVictimsComm
Ground-breaking new research by
@MOPACLdn
shows the scale of stalking and how the justice system is struggling to tackle stalkers and protect victims. The London Stalking Review makes clear recommendations to help drive change
All candidates for municipal deputies from the St. Petersburg Yabloko were denied registration in the elections. Yabloko will challenge unlawful denials in registration in court.
Cooper says she will end the retrospective nature of the Illegal Migration Act (which has left asylum seekers in limbo since passed in March 2023)
"so the Home Office can immediately start clearing cases" and making decisions. She says this will save £7bn.
Originally everywhere you look in England universities are cost cutting - reducing staff to manage a sudden drop this year in international recruitment. 40% of universities are forecasting a deficit & the regulator has warned that’s based on over optimistic assumptions
I welcome the justice secretary’s decision to seek the removal of Helen Pitcher in her position as chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Not a single referral appears to have resulted in the three years since the
@ccrcupdate
announced it would be re-examining more than
@SalBrinton
@Dis_PPL_Protest
In transport there was no mention of
@LevelBoarding
commitment or legislative deadlines to deliver accessible step free train stations.
Without legislation it will never happen - at the current rate of investment it will take 100 years
Rolling programmes are needed
Following on from my tweet yesterday, I have seen huge anger, frustration and real despair about medication shortages across lots of conditions. 1 man can’t get his son’s epilepsy meds, another can’t have prostate cancer bone scan as no isotopes, ADHD meds unavailable 1/n
At the
@Dis_PPL_Protest
#DisabledPeopleDemand
. I’m still shocked no mention of social care in the King’s Speech, and Eq Act Amdt Bill only about firms declaring no. of disabled employees. So much more needed!
Very glad to see the
@LibDems
sticking to principled support for a fair deal for votes.
First Past the Post is at the root of the psychodrama we’ve had to live with over the past decade of Tory in-fighting, and now it’s given Labour a massive majority on a slender minority.