Renewable schemes must provide real benefit to Highland communities
MacDonald focuses in Maiden Speech on providing communities with real benefit from renewables in their area.
6 Sep 2024
News
All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
Stone ‘thrilled’ with Flow Country’s World Heritage Status
"Many of us have long suspected that this unique habitat was probably of world importance - now we know that it most certainly is and has been recognised as such."
26 Jul 2024
MacDonald respond to fresh NHS buildings delay at Portree, Fort William and Inverness
“People are waiting an age for treatment but the SNP have poured cold water on essential new NHS buildings all across Scotland."
26 Jul 2024
Stone raises concerns over staff vacancies in Highland schools under the SNP
“Scotland’s education system used to be the envy of the world. However, under this SNP Government, we have witnessed the significant and continuous decline in education standards across the country.
25 Jul 2024
Stone signs WASPI Parliamentary Motion
“WASPI women are dying without the DWP admitting to their errors. Without any acknowledgement of the impact that this has had on their lives and without compensation.
18 Jul 2024
Local News
Jamie Stone reacts to King's Speech
'I would strongly encourage the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, to look at projects like the Cromarty Firth Green Freeport and I would invite him to come north as soon as possible to see for himself what is being done there.'
17 Jul 2024
Scottish News
Scot Lib Dems win from 5th place in ultra-competitive Edinburgh bellwether
Scottish Liberal Democrats candidate Kevin McKay has won the highly contested Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart by-election, a ward in which the party finished in fifth place at the 2022 election.
27 Jun 2025
Wendy Chamberlain MP and People’s Postcode Lottery respond to Government not lifting Charity Lottery Cap
Wendy Chamberlain, MP for North East Fife, brought forward her Private Member’s Bill earlier this year calling for the cap on charity lottery sales to be lifted. She worked closely with the People’s Postcode Lottery on this Bill. At the time, the Governme
26 Jun 2025
Cole-Hamilton: Cancer patients deserve better than SNP failures
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that cancer patients “deserve better” than SNP failures, as he challenged the First Minister on cancer waiting times reaching their worst level on record and questioned why Scots are m
26 Jun 2025
Married couple Yi-pei Chou Turvey and Michael Turvey top North East list
Scottish Liberal Democrats have today announced that Aberdeenshire councillor Yi-pei Chou Turvey and her husband Michael Turvey will be the top two candidates on the party’s regional list for the North East of Scotland at the forthcoming Scottish election
26 Jun 2025
SNP financial strategy is late, incompetent and unsustainable
Responding to the Scottish Government’s medium term financial strategy, Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Jamie Greene MSP said:
25 Jun 2025
Dozens of pro-independence accounts go dark after Israeli strikes on Iran
Responding to reports in the UK Defence Journal that dozens of anonymous X accounts advocating Scottish independence abruptly went silent after Israeli strikes on Iran, leading to suggestions that they were part of an Iranian bot network, Liberal Democrat
25 Jun 2025
UK News
Climate Change
“I left COP29 with hope in my heart”
Pippa Heylings reports from the global climate summit in Baku
PH
25 Nov 2024
Latest UK News
Black History Month 2024
October is Black History Month - a chance to celebrate the Black British community, acknowledge their contributions and discover their stories.
CJ
17 Oct 2024
Ed Davey's speech to Liberal Democrat Conference
Read Ed Davey's speech to the Liberal Democrats' Autumn Conference in Brighton
17 Sep 2024
Carers
A Fair Deal for Family Carers
Carers are not just support for their loved ones—they are the glue holding our fragile social care system together. They deserve more than token acknowledgements or empty promises.
LD
17 Sep 2024
Environment
The Clean Water Authority
Liberal Democrats believe that everyone has the right to enjoy clean, safe water and unpolluted rivers, lakes, and coastlines. We are committed to ending the national sewage scandal and holding water companies accountable for their environmental impact.
LD
17 Sep 2024
Carers
Reversing the cuts to Bereavement Support Payments
Liberal Democrats have passed new policy to stand up for bereaved families and kinship carers, so more young people can grow up in a loving, stable home.
16 Sep 2024