All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
I have been a Highland Councillor for eight months now and am really enjoying it, learning about issues at schools, roads, the local economy and care sector, amongst many other subjects.
The care sector, especially in the Highlands, is in crisis. It's facing the same combination of extreme cost increases as hospitality, however its situation is far worse.
There is barely a café, pub or hotel that is not desperately seeking staff across the Highlands this summer. And we all have horror stories of new employees not turning up for their first day at work, or being seduced by a higher pay offer elsewhere.
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today warned that efforts to tackle youth knife possession are failing to make progress as he revealed that the police have recorded almost 700 crimes of possessing an article with a blade or poi
As he marked six years since the SNP government last met its key four-hour A&E waiting times target, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP has revealed that the target has been missed for a colossal 2.4 million people.
Responding to the news that the Scottish Government scrapped its tax advisory group in February, Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for the Highlands and Islands Morven-May MacCallum has pressed the SNP government for answers on whether they will extend ferry compensation to coastal communities.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Duncan Dunlop has today (Thursday 9th July) criticised the SNP’s botched handling of teacher planning, as he revealed the government is training hundreds more primary school teachers than are needed.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has said that “for the first time we have the upper hand” in the fight to protect remuneration for coastguard volunteers, after leading an Urgent Question on the issue in Parliament this afternoon.
Tomorrow, my bill to ban conversion therapy will be debated in the House of Lords.
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has unveiled a new ‘Tory Removal Service’ campaign poster, as he announces a new plan to force a General Election and stop Rishi Sunak clinging on to power.
Ed Davey rings in election year with powerful call to “transform the nature of British politics for good”
Ed Davey's Christmas Message 2023
We need politicians who genuinely care – ready to put in the graft and capable of taking the political initiative. No-one can possibly still believe the UK’s Conservatives are up to this. I am completely convinced the Liberal Democrats are.
As the warmth and glow of the candles grow each evening, I hope it may serve as a reminder that even in the darkness, there is hope. Hope for a brighter tomorrow.