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.
Ahead of laying a wreath at Edinburgh Castle to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP will reflect on the war and call on Scotland to continue supporting refugees who have fled the conflict.
Responding to the news that a majority of Edinburgh councillors backed the Liberal Democrat budget motion today, Scottish Liberal Democrat councillor Kevin Lang said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat and Shetland’s MSP, Beatrice Wishart, has today questioned the First Minister on the action of the Scottish Government in light of the Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) strikes. HIAL is wholly owned by the Scottish Government.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on the Scottish Government to accelerate the process for moving Ukrainian refugees out of temporary accommodation and into longer term options after new statistics showed there are around 6,200 Ukrainians living in hotels and cruise ships.
Responding to Health Secretary Humza Yousaf’s appearance on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme earlier, where he claimed there was “much success” in the health service and that preventing strike action by NHS staff is “where one of his strengths lie,” Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to the news that the Chief Constable of Police Scotland Sir Iain Livingstone is to retire in the summer, while warning in a report that the position the police have been put in is “unsustainable”, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
The anticipated Somerton and Frome election will be a close two horse race between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.