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
Rennie secures major overhaul of qualifications quality assurance after history exam row
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Willie Rennie has secured a series of significant reforms to the Scottish Government’s Education Bill to strengthen the oversight and quality of national qualifications, following widespread concern over this year’s Higher Hi
25 Jun 2025
Greene comments on Glasgow Subway strikes
Responding to the news that more than 100 Glasgow subway workers will strike this week, Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson, Jamie Greene MSP, said:
24 Jun 2025
McArthur: Police need the right skills and resources to tackle online sex crimes
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur has today warned that the police need the right skills and resources to tackle online sex crimes as new annual crime statistics showed sex crimes are now at their second highest level since 1971
24 Jun 2025
SNP fuelling housing crisis amid 11% slump
Scottish Liberal Democrats have accused the SNP of fuelling the housing crisis after official figures published today show dramatic falls in new build house starts and completions.
24 Jun 2025
Delayed discharge at an all-time high with people spending 720,000 days stuck in hospital
Responding to new statistics showing that the total annual days spent in hospital is at an all-time high and thousands are waiting on care packages, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex-Cole Hamilton MSP has today said that a succ
24 Jun 2025
Cancer waiting times worst on record
Responding to new figures that show in the first quarter of 2025 only 68.9% of cancer patients were seen within the 62-day standard treatment time, the worst since records began, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
24 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