Yesterday, our MPs joined farmers in Westminster to call on the Government to axe Labour’s family farm tax. Farmers are absolutely vital to this country. They put high quality food on our tables and look after our countryside – without them we would all be worse off. After years of the Conservatives taking rural communities […]

The new government is considering a rethink on the Right to But (RTB) as part of its strategy to help resolve the housing crisis. This in my view is a step in the right direction. But more needs to be done, RTB is just one element in a complex issue. It requires a comprehensive housing […]

For decades, Liberal Democrats have led calls for reform of our broken political system. The need to fix our politics was only made more urgent by the previous Conservative Government. Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak treated public standards with disdain, which did immense damage to trust in politics. Following our historic General Election […]

Rachel Reeves’s increase in employer national insurance contributions (NICs) will hit workers’ living standards, Barclays has warned, amid growing backlash over the tax hike. It comes as leaders of Britain’s biggest business organisations accused the Labour government of “betrayal”. Economists at the bank said the policy would cause real incomes to take a hit, as companies pass on […]

Hospitality bosses have told Rachel Reeves her changes to National Insurance are “regressive in their impact on lower earners”, it has been reported. Signatories to the letter organised by UK Hospitality, and seen by The Sunday Times, have said that “some jobs on minimum wage will become unviable” as a result of the new threshold […]

Last Saturday we found out who had become the new leader of the Conservative Party. The question is, should the media pay any attention to the Conservatives now? Kemi Badenoch comes from a long line of Tory leaders devoted to an ideology that has been tried, tested and failed; small government – the idea that […]

People who use the bus to commute to work across Walsall could be hit by the equivalent of a 1p income tax rise due to the government’s decision to raise the bus fare cap from £2 to £3 which Walsall’s Lib Dems have labelled the ‘bus tax’. Analysis by the Party shows that the average […]

All Councils in England are required by law to set a balanced budget each year. Walsall Council is no different. Former Cllrs Dan Barker and Ian Shires Over the past 15 years the Council has had to make savings of around £285 million. Partly because of reductions in the grant funding they received off central […]

5 hours to go until we get to know exactly what the Autumn Budget has in store for us. At around 12.30pm today Rachel Reeves will stand at the dispatch box in the House of Commons and deliver the Labour Government’s Budget Statement. It will be the first from a Labour Chancellor for 14 years. […]

Since the election, our MPs have been working tirelessly to stand up for the public’s concerns and be local champions for their constituencies. We’ve opposed cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance and pushed the Government to act faster and bolder on issues neglected by the Conservative Government. On sewage, our recent analysis revealed an increase in water […]