On the 4th of July Liberal member Alan Tormey will be contesting the by-election in Broad Green Ward of Liverpool City council. Alan Oscoft will be contesting the Clubmoor East Ward on the same date. 

A promotional video is available to view on the front page of the Liberal Party website.

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.

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The general election manifesto is now available to access from the front page of the party website.

There are links to our election campaign video

                                                       Liberal Party Promotion Video – Campaign for Change

                                                             Presented by Liberal Party Leader Cllr Steve Radford

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.

A big thank you to all those candidates who have stepped forward to represent The Liberal Party on the 4th July, and their supporters and benefactors.
 
The party will be contests the following 12 seats.
 
Scotland

Allan Steele - East Renfrewshire

Cornwall

St. Ives and The Isles of Scilly:      Paul Nicholson

Camborne and Redruth:                Cllr. Paul Holmes

St. Austell and Newquay               Jay Latham

Truro and Falmouth                      Peter White

Lincolnshire

Lincoln Borough Constituency     Cllr Charles Shaw

Liverpool

Cllr Steve Radford West Derby

Cllr Billy Lake Walton

Alan Tormey Garston

Sean Weaver Riverside

Runcorn

Dany Clark Runcorn and Helsby

Cotswold

Cllr Christopher Twells South Cotswolds

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.
 

Speaking to the Liverpool Echo Liberal Party leader Cllr Steve Radford said of the Prime Minster decision

“He’s jumped before he was pushed and guillotined by his own party. We will be fielding candidates in areas of strength like Merseyside and Cornwall, with new members in Scotland.

“The country is broken, there’s never been a decade where things are worse than at the start of a government. Continuing with the same policies won’t change anything with Keir Starmer, it will add to the disillusionment.”

The Liberal Party will publish a full list of parliamentary candidates after the close of nominations on Friday the 7th of June.

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.

The nominating window for the general  election opens on Tuesday 4th June. The Liberal Party is currently looking at 2 candidates in the Glasgow area of Scotland, 5 in the NW, 1 in  Lincolnshire, 1 in the Cotswolds, and 4 in the Cornish peninsula with another on the south coast still to declare their intensions

Please reach out to local candidates to offer assistance where possible.

The Liberal Party welcomes the publication of the final report of the Infected Blood Enquiry which has laid bare the decades of blatant cover-up and denial over the use of infected blood products in the NHS.

This report details the 3000 lives lost and the tens of thousands more blighted by unsafe blood products, and the cover up by medical professionals, successive governments and the NHS which has followed.

The Liberal Party proposes that I the wake of this enquiry all public bodies have a duty of candour; to be frank and honest and this should be enshrined in law.

People need to feel free to speak out and even straightforwardly apologize if they realize they are part of a mistake without being frighted of the consequences and the legal systems needs to be driven by an urgency that compensation payments are arbitrated in a timely fashion to support victims.

We need to show accepting responsibility and an emphasis on reconciling the problem and not being punitive as this too can make people evade the truth.

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.

The Liberal Party notes with increasing concern the escalation in hostilities between Israel and Iran in the wake of the 7th October attack on Israel and the subsequent invasion of Gaza.

This weekend’s mass drone attack on Israel by Iran has been provoked by increasing attacks on Iranian linked targets in Lebanon, including its consular, an Israeli response to earlier provocations by Hezbollah.

Any Israeli policy of widening the regional conflict has no justification or purpose, other than perhaps to keep its Prime Minister and his allies in power and delay accountability for the wholly disproportionate action taken in Gaza.

The Liberal Party believes that the Israeli campaign in Gaza has long gone far beyond any justification on the grounds of self-defence Israel and that international pressure must now be brought to bear to impose a lasting ceasefire across the region. That must include the resumption of unhindered humanitarian aid to Gaza, reconstruction of the civilian infrastructure including hospitals, school and universities, and progress to a lasting two state solution to bring lasting peace to the region.

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.

The Liberal Party welcomes the publication of the report produced by Dr Hilary Cass and her recommendations to NHS England in her role as Chair of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people.

The report makes it clear that "the rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psychosocial health" and that "(t)he effect on cognitive and psychosexual development remains unknown". The report also states that "©linicians are unable to determine with any certainty which children and young people will go on to have an enduring trans identity".

The Liberal Party's position on this matter has always been that there was no medical evidence to support the treatment of gender distressed children and young adults with early puberty blockers and hormones. Dr. Cass' report agrees with this position and further states that "(f)or most young people, a medical pathway to manage their gender-related distress.
For those young people for whom a medical pathway is clinically indicated, it is not enough to provide this without also addressing wider mental health and/or psychosocially challenging problems".

In view of the findings of this report, The Liberal Party urges the Scottish Government to:

1. With immediate effect stop all further medical treatment of children and young adults at by NHS Scotland, including but not limited to the Sandyford Clinic and private health providers.

2. Publish an evidence based, clinically informed strategy to provide lifelong support where sought to all those children and young children that have been treated with puberty blockers and masculinising/feminising hormones to date in Scotland. 

3. Revisit the End of Conversion Therapy legislative proposal to incorporate the findings of Dr. Cass' report.

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.

We have a very modest number of candidates this May.
 
This is largely because the major centres of activity in Liverpool, North Yorkshire, Devon, Cornwall and Surrey have all had their local elections in the last 2 years.
 
As such we have standing:
 
Borough of Halton
Beechwood & Heath Ward
Danny Clarke
 
Election of a Councillor to City of Lincoln Council
CASTLE Ward
Charles Shaw
 
Reading Burrough Council
Norcot Ward,
Stephen Graham
Please offer any support you can to those flying the flag for Liberalism at the polls.

Promoted by Stephen Graham on behalf of the Liberal Party, 12 Dayworth Mews, Lundy Lane, Reading, RG30 2RR.

The next Liberal Party NEC will be held at the Christ Church, Buckingham Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool L13 8AY on Saturday the 18th May  2024 between 11am and 4pm.

A Zoom video conference  facility will be available, and a link can be requested prior to the meeting.

Members of the Liberal Party as well as the general public are welcome to attend this meeting and it is envisaged this event will be used as a launch event for our General Election
preparations and will be filmed as party of our election campaign.

Travel options for the venue are available via the Traveline website.


For further details please contact the Secretary of the NEC or another member of the NEC.