All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
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.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Jamie Greene MSP has today accused the SNP government of “permanent evasion” after they could not say whether there are still plans for a new billet plant at Sanjeev Gupta’s Lochaber smelter.
Speaking during First Minister’s Questions, Scottish Liberal Democrat Jamie Greene MSP challenged John Swinney over “a growing trend of reward for failure” in settlement agreements for senior public executives.
Ahead of SNP ministers making a statement to parliament later today (Thursday 11th September), Scottish Liberal Democrat Jamie Greene MSP has urged them to “come clean” on their government's deals with Sanjeev Gupta’s troubled business empire and taxpayer
Scottish Liberal Democrat Jamie Greene MSP has accused the Scottish Conservatives of “rank hypocrisy” after bringing forward a motion on the impact of asylum hotels, calling it “yet another example of a desperate party aping Reform”.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife Wendy Chamberlain has written to Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray, raising urgent concerns about a stroke patient from Newport-on-Tay receiving care many miles from home.
Responding to the news that the number of people in Scotland’s prisons has returned to the level which caused the early release of hundreds of inmates, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
British people are struggling with eye-watering food prices and yet this Conservative Government is refusing to help. Liberal Democrats are putting forward a proper plan to make food cheaper.
This is a devastating blow to our country’s environment.
We love our country and want to transform it for the better. To build a liberal Britain, and spread real opportunity to every city, town and village across our great United Kingdom. To deliver the fair deal that the British people deserve.
The anti-refugee Braverman Bill is immoral, unworkable and incredibly costly.
Everyone deserves a fair chance to succeed in life and access to the same opportunities. Sadly that is not the case in the UK.
Liberal Democrat plans would cut energy bills for consumers and businesses, reduce emissions and set Britain on a path to a sustainable future.