The next Liberal Party open NEC will be held at Cotton Court Business Centre, Church Street, Preston, PR1 3BY.


The meeting will run from midday to 4pm and details can be obtained from members of the NEC.

The Liberal Party is pleased to announce that Carole Ann will be contesting the Berrylands Ward of the Kingston Upon Thames Council.

Please support our candidate at the polls.

We are pleased to confirm this evening that Cllr Alan Tormey from the Childwall Ward in Liverpool has joined The Liberal Party Group.

He wishes to leave the LibDem group (and party) and sit as a member of the Liberal Group on Liverpool City Council, having discussed with local members his joining the Liverpool Liberal Association.

We understand he wishes to leave the LibDem group for sound liberal reasons and has a strong local reputation for being a hard-working community politician in the best Liberal tradition.

Alan has consistently supported Councillors from all parties working together and supported equal and individual rights of every Councillor in the best of Liberal tradition.

He wishes to fight one of the new Liverpool wards in the Childwall area as a Liberal candidate in next year’s local elections.

The Liberal Party notes the publication of the recent Government policy paper outlining a draft energy security strategy to secure the nations long term energy needs.

Whilst the strategy concentrates on energy generation and securing domestic production it ignores the opportunity to reduce consumption by funding an extensive home insulation scheme for older properties or addressing the pressing need for investment in a new generation of battery storage to allow better utilisation of renewable energy sources.

We should also improve building regulations to mandate high efficiency insulation in new builds and home improvements as well solar panels and heat pumps installed in new builds.

We also wish to reiterate are belief that fracking has no place in our nation’s energy plan and is an intrusive and environmentally damaging process which only perpetuates our addiction to fossil fuels.

We believe that the nation should invest in a final generation of nuclear power plants which provide the best short-term solution to providing low CO2 energy whilst maintaining the reliability of the UK’s power supply until new storage technologies are available.

Many thanks to Angela Preston for standing at her first election in Liverpool.

The results were as follows:

LAB: 62.0% (-24.6)
GRN: 24.2% (+20.5)
LIB: 5.6% (+3.4)
CON: 3.4% (-1.7)
TUSC: 3.1% (+3.1)
LDEM: 1.7% (-0.6)
Votes cast: 1,493

Many thanks to our local party members for supporting her at the polls and those who cast their vote for our local candidate.

The Liberal Party is pleased to announce the following candidates in the Ryedale district for the up- coming North Yorkshire County Council elections:

Alasdair Iain Clark is contesting the Kirkbymoorside & Dales Division.

Joy Andrews is contesting the Pickering Division.

Clive Wass is contesting the Thornton Dale & Wolds Division.

Please support our candidates at the polls on the 5th May.

The Liberal Party views with grave concern the lifting of the energy price cap and the almost immediate increase in domestic prices of over 50%.

Households and families in the country are now facing an unprecedented increase in energy and food prices, potentially pushing millions into poverty and heart-breaking choices between keeping warm and eating.

The party believes that the recent “spring statement” has failed to deliver the one thing household budgets need which is a matching increase in income to offset rising bills. We believe this can most fairly achieved via the benefits and pensions systems and our own policy preference of raising the personal tax threshold to £20k.

We believe that the Chancellor has failed to address the immediate energy price crisis and instead been distracted promoting minor changes to our tax rates which are of no immediate benefit to the nation’s households who face an almost immediate price rise averaging £700 a year.

Angela Preston will be standing for the Liberal Party at the Everton Ward By-Election in Liverpool on the 7th April 2022.

There will be a Council By-Election in the Everton Ward as one of the three current Councillors has resigned having been elected to Parliament as MP for West Derby.
 
Your Liberal Party Candidate for Everton is Angela Preston.
 
Angela is an International Best-Selling Author/Coach and Public Speaker.
 
Angela’s family links with Everton go back over many generations.
 
Angela was born and raised in Everton and attended both primary and senior schools in the area. Her working life started as a 16 year on a YTS scheme in Salisbury Street.
 
She has since gone on to set up and run several successful businesses and works.
 
in partnership with several charities to reduce the impact of drugs in our community.
 
Her passion for helping others comes from her days growing up on the Radcliffe Walk.
 
Estate where community was at the heart of everything.
 
She now runs Personal Development Courses for all age groups and is currently studying Creative Writing and Politics at Liverpool Hope University.
 
Please support Angela at the polls on the 7th April.

In light of the current evidence that the Russian Federation is -
 
            Kidnapping and deposing legitimately elected local government officials
 
            Deporting citizens of Ukraine into the Russian federation territories
 
We recognise this is a concerted plan to remove all vestiges of Ukrainian nation and democratic institutions
 
The narratives used to justify the move and the tactics play a frightening parallel to Hitler's dismemberment of the Sudetenland and then invasion of the remaining Republic of Czechoslovakia.
 
The Liberal Party recognising that Putin has laid out clear plans to rebuild the Soviet- Imperial Russian Empire just as Hitler laid out his plans in Mien Kampf.  
 
We believe that the possibility of defeat for the Ukrainian Government is fundamentally dangerous for western security and would bring Russian forces closer to key NATO countries and resources
 
Therefore, NATO should immediately admit the application of Moldova. We should note the President of Belarus has shown his generals a map with both Ukraine and Moldova wiped out.
 
We should be in dialogue with Georgia to admit on its current borders.
 
We should signal defence treaty to support Sweden and Finland without them having to compromise their historic policy of neutrality.
 
Ukrainian forces need more significant offensive weaponry, including jets to drive back the Russian invaders whilst the conflict is in clear balance.
 
The defeat of democracy in Ukraine will embolden Putin just as the West's timid approach in Czechoslovakia emboldened Hitler.
 
Cllr Steve Radford
Leader of The Liberal Party

Employment rights are hard won and exist to protect employees from abrupt and arbitrary termination of employment which P&O Ferries now stand’s accused of as well as a potential failure to give statutory notice of largescale redundancies.
 
The all-too common phenonium of mass redundancy by Zoom conference call is an unwelcome recent development in business. It shows a lack of respect towards staff as well as being a potentially violating the legal requirement for proper consultation with employees over any restructuring.
 
The management of a business which is reported to be losing £100 million a year appears to have only thought about employing low-wage agency workers before exploring other avenues to rescue their business