Inheritance tax overhaul part of radical Lib Dem plans to tackle wealth inequality.

Liberal Democrat Conference has today voted for a motion designed to spread opportunity, power and wealth more fairly throughout society and to give everyone a stake in the UK’s economic success.

Liberal Democrats demand international treaty on plastics

The Liberal Democrats have today demanded the Government initiate negotiations within the UN for a legally binding international treaty on plastics.

The treaty, set out at the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton, would encompass phased reductions in the production, consumption and trade of virgin feedstock.

Further to our recent call in the Bournemouth Echo for business rates to be scrapped we are delighted to confirm that our national party conference has backed us.

Today at conference, Liberal Democrats have voted for a comprehensive plan to replace the broken business rates system.

Lib Dems call for affordable and secure homes for all.

Liberal Democrat conference has passed a motion calling for the Government to ensure everyone has a right to affordable, safe and secure homes in England.
 
The motion included a commitment to build at least 50,000 new social homes for rent every year, as part of the long-standing commitment of the Liberal Democrats to build 300,000 homes a year over the next decade.

The Liberal Democrats have today passed a motion at their conference in Brighton calling on the Government to pay full regard to animal welfare, with a range of measures to improve the treatment of animals.  

Liberal Democrats committed to phase out animal experiments that cause extreme suffering, to reduce deformities in pedigree pets, make horse racing safer and ban the use of wild animals in circuses. 

Liberal Democrat conference has passed a motion demanding the restoration of rights to the Windrush Generation.

The motion demands an end to the damaging hostile environment policy started under May’s leadership of the Home Office. 

The motion calls for measures to ensure there is a fair process that would prevent future outrages, and for compensation for any victims of the Windrush scandal who have been affected by deportation, detention or the loss of their rights in the UK.

Liberal Democrat delegates have today moved to support the decriminalisation of abortion, including for women in Northern Ireland.

Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine, who summated the motion, told delegates that it was “wrong that women are being denied rights over their own bodies.” She added that “2018 must be the year this ends.”

The proposals debated and passed by delegates include the enforcement of buffer zones around abortion service providers, ensuring people have the right to privacy and access to services without harassment.

Bournemouth's Tories are failing our children.

In the light of a recent critical report, we have been going back through the archives and checking what Ofsted have said about Bournemouth's Children's Services over the years.