All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
Thank you to everyone across Caithness, Sutherland and Ross for placing your trust in me. I will work every day to ensure your voices are heard and to deliver the change our communities deserve.
Too many Highland communities feel that decisions are being imposed on them, not made with them. The energy transition must also be about empowerment.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my support - both personally and on behalf of my party, the Scottish Liberal Democrats - for the Clean Up Scotland’s Sewage campaign efforts.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have made restoring consultant-led maternity services to Caithness General Hospital a manifesto pledge ahead of the forthcoming election.
Plans for a passing loop on the Far North Line between Inverness and Beauly would dramatically improve train punctuality between Caithness and Inverness and must be in the next Scottish Government’s programme.
The Highland Liberal Democrats are calling on the Scottish Government to end the “national embarrassment” of homelessness after revealing almost 6,500 people over the last five years declared themselves homeless across the Highlands.
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.
Responding to Malcolm Offord’s appearance on BBC Radio Scotland this morning, in which he said that Nigel Farage was the victim of an “establishment stitch-up”, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said:
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today secured an Urgent Question asking the Secretary of State for Transport if she will make a statement on the management of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and proposed changes to payments made to Coa
Scottish Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson Sanne Dijkstra-Downie MSP has today (Wednesday 8th July) called for SEPA to monitor pollution in Scotland's 90 bathing waters year-round, following a spate of recent beach closures due to pollution.
Responding to new figures showing the worst May at A&E on record, with only 67.7% of people attending A&E seen within the 4-hour target in May, while 16,612 people waited over 8 hours and 6,978 waited over 12 hours, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokes
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This LGBT+ History Month we celebrate the contributions of LGBT+ people throughout history, reflect on the struggles they have faced and reaffirm our determination to make progress on equality.
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On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust, and the millions of others killed under Nazi persecution.