Commenting on Tony Blair's speech to the Labour Party conference, Chairman of the Liberal Democrat Campaigns and Communication Committee, Ed Davey MP said: "This was a speech from a lame duck Prime Minister. In more than an hour of oratory, he failed to tackle the crucial question the country needs answered - exactly when is he going?"
Bedford Liberal Democrats have reacted with concern after a meeting of the Bedfordshire NHS Joint Scrutiny Committee on Friday did nothing to reassure local residents facing the devastating impact of further cuts to local services.
The Government is under renewed pressure today to reach a decision on the future of the 8,000-strong network of rural post offices after a report by Age Concern warned that older people fear financial and social isolation if Royal Mail is forced into a widespread closure programme.
Liberal Democrats have declared that local residents deserve better after Borough Council figures for the urban area revealed that at the current rate of resurfacing it would take 66 years, almost a lifetime, for every road to be resurfaced.
A Populus poll for The Times this week asked about what people think of the parties and found that the Liberal Democrats are for the many and not the few, understands the way people live their lives and cares about the problems ordinary people have to face compared to the other parties.
As the Labour Party Conference takes place in Manchester a Labour Minister's shareholdings are being probed. Liam Byrne MP, Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, and Home Office Minister has been forced to insist that he followed "all the correct procedures" after reports that a company he owns shares in has supplied services to police forces. Mr Byrne owns shares in E-Government Solutions Ltd, which has provided computer services to eight police forces and has had a turnover of £1.4million in the first six months of this year alone.
