All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
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Responding to Public Health Scotland figures published today which show that the number of planned operations was lower than pre-pandemic levels, with 7.2% fewer operations planned in August 2023 than were planned in August 2019, Scottish Liberal Democrat
Responding to the embargoed 1919 Magazine story in which David Kennedy, General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, warns that "any notion that policing will remain the same and will remain as safe as it has been is just not going to happen,” and
Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate for Rutherglen and Hamilton West Gloria Adebo has today attacked the Scottish Government’s record and warned that cuts to local authority budgets are behind a string of closures threatening local services in the area.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie has today accused the SNP of hypocrisy and warned that their continued obsession with “Thatcherite” standardised testing was harming 4- and 5-year-olds.
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton has today revealed that the number of racist incidents reported by NHS staff has doubled to almost 500 a year in the past five years.
Responding to reports by Sky News that Rishi Sunak is considering scrapping the winter fuel allowance for most pensioners, Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions Spokesperson Wendy Chamberlain MP said:
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain - that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
