Country Needs a Change of Direction, Not Just a Change at the Top: Campbell
Leader of the Liberal Democrats Menzies Campbell said that the country needed a change in direction not just a change in personnel at the top.
27 Jun 2007
Leader of the Liberal Democrats Menzies Campbell said that the country needed a change in direction not just a change in personnel at the top.
Conservative MP Quentin Davies, has defected from the Conservative Party, slamming the record of Conservative leader David Cameron. In his resignation letter, Quentin Davies said:
Speaking as Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield, Paul Holmes said:
Local MP Tim Farron has seen for himself some of the key issues facing local tourist business during a visit to Oldfield House Bed & Breakfast in Windermere.
The Constitutional Affairs Committee has published its report on the Freedom of Information Act, which criticises a government plan to make it easier for public bodies to turn down requests for information on the grounds that they are too expensive to answer. Members of the Select Committee are calling on the government to abandon its "unnecessary, unpopular and undesirable" reforms of the Freedom of Information Act.
Local MP, Tim Farron has revealed figures obtained by the Halifax Bank that show that the level of Council Tax for an average sized property across the country has almost doubled in the ten years since Labour came to power in 1997. The burden on homeowners has therefore increased massively, and the rise is more than three times the level of inflation.