Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder has urged the government to protect bees and other pollinating insects by keeping in place an EU ban on neonicotinoids post-Brexit. An unprecedented major study published yesterday showed that neonics are deeply harmful to bees and could be responsible for half the decline in wild bee populations in the UK […]

The Lib Dems are celebrating after their campaign to charge for plastic bags has proven to be a resounding success. Plastic bag use has plummeted in England since the introduction of a 5p charge last year, a policy first proposed under the coalition government. The national campaign, headed by Baroness Kate Parminter, was tirelessly fought […]

Every year in the UK 2.5 billion coffee cups are thrown away and only 1 in 400 of these recycled. Many of these discarded cups litter our streets, lay as waste in the countryside and even end up floating in the oceans. In coalition, the Liberal Democrats with the support of the Conservatives introduced a […]

Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron has warned of a “housing crisis”, as new research shows that home ownership in the North West has fallen dramatically. Research by the Resolution Foundation shows that across the North West region excluding Greater Manchester and Merseyside, levels of home ownership have dropped to 71.4%. This figure is a significant […]

Figures published yesterday by the Revolution Foundation in the Daily Mirror reveal a nationwide problem, with millions of families in the North and Midlands struggling as much as Londoners to get on the property ladder It is reported that the housing crisis is “national emergency” as it emerged the proportion of home owners has fallen […]

Plastic bag use has plummeted in England since the introduction of a 5p charge last year, under the previous coalition government. The number of single-use plastic bags used by shoppers in England has fallen by more than 85%. More than 7bn bags were handed out by seven main supermarkets in the year before the charge […]

Plastic bag use has plummeted in England since the introduction of a 5p charge last year, under the previous coalition government. Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron: “We always said the test of this policy would be by the amount of bags that are cut from public consumption and the funds raised for charities – on […]

The following article was published yesterday on the Liberal Democrat Voice Website. As the human rights situation in Turkey worsens, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Tom Brake has called for Turkey to be suspended from NATO and for the refugee deal between Turkey and the EU to be scrapped. Tom Brake said: Erdogan’s ongoing purge […]

The Liberal Democrats have written to Andrea Leadsom the new Environment Secretary calling on her to introduce a ban on the use of microbeads in cosmetic products. Previously ministers have claimed the government supports a ban but is working towards an EU-wide position before taking any unilateral action. In a letter to Andrea Leadsom, Liberal […]

Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder has drafted her report on the Commission’s Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking. Please follow the link to see the draft report. The deadline for amendments is Friday September 9th at 12:00pm, please feel free to contact [email protected] if you have any suggestions.