All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
Angus MacDonald, MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, and Kate Forbes, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, are co-hosting a conference on adult social care in Fort William on Friday 24th October.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is being urged to reconsider and broaden its current ‘Access to Cash’ policy to include an ‘Access to Banks’ provision following the recent mass closure of local bank branches across the UK.
The Highland Liberal Democrats have called for a new law to strengthen rural communities, accusing the SNP government of “a broken relationship with rural Scotland” that has left many rural areas forgotten and left behind.
Far North Liberal Democrats Jamie Stone and David Green have written to the Secretary of State for Transport to raise concerns regarding the backlog of practical driving tests in the Highlands.
The Scottish Government and NHS Highland are being urged to set out a timetable for collating the information required for Scottish Ministers to make a decision in response to calls for an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
The Liberal Democrat candidate for the Far North, David Green, says it “stinks” that the Scottish Government has no plans monitor 100% of overflows despite sewage concerns raised by Caithness campaigners.
Scottish Liberal Democrats have pledged to fight any attempt by Nigel Farage, Lord Malcolm Offord and Reform UK to start fracking in Scotland, warning that the proposals could damage the countryside and would be opposed by local communities.
Scottish Liberal Democrat deputy leader Wendy Chamberlain has today used a visit to the Scottish Deer Centre to set out her party’s plans for getting spades in the ground and getting Scotland building again.
Scottish Liberal Democrats have revealed that since 2019 there have been 312 sewage leaks in Scottish schools as the party highlighted its plans to modernise Scottish school buildings and make Scottish education the best in the world again.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today used a visit to a bakery in Glasgow to say that making gains on the peach regional ballot would be the icing on the cake of a successful campaign.
Scot Lib Dem deputy leader and Chair of the Scotch Whisky APPG Wendy Chamberlain MP said:
New polling commissioned by the Liberal Democrats reveals 3 in 5 Brits want to see more power to control the number of vape shops on their high street, with the figures even higher among Scots, as the party calls for a crackdown on cowboy vendors and effo
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