“If it’s a cold winter, we’ll have older people shivering in their homes, and that’s unacceptable.”

Me talking to @LBCNews on proposed cuts to the #WinterFuelAllowance

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If you get the results you wanted WELL DONE! Take time to enjoy your success – you’ve earned it! And enjoy throwing yourself into whatever you’ve planned next.

If you don’t get the results, don’t despair: life always throws challenges at us, what matters is how we choose to respond. You will likely live a long life: you have time to find your path!

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We Lib Dems continue to call for:

a ban on water bosses bonuses

an end to bumper profits

reform so water companies must put environmental protections over profits

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The project will provide 33 social homes for people and families on the housing register and the 60 remaining homes will be sold on a shared ownership basis to increase affordability.

It really is a beautiful example of sustainable development: energy efficient social homes, on a brownfield site, with commercial space to enhance the thriving city centre, a new walkway linking Victoria Street and Civic Close, and the revamped Quaker gardens now the start of a new green corridor through our city centre.

Oh, and an amazing view of the Cathedral and city sky-scape for some lucky family on the top floor too!

Huge congratulations to the Lib Dem run St Albans District Council, Watford Community Housing and everyone else involved. A triumph!

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The Labour Government has launched an eight week consultation on changes to the planning system.

The consultation document is 69 pages long. The proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework are pages long and there are annexes too.

The bottom line is that the Labour Government are not only going to continue with top-down housing targets, but that the housing target for St Albans is going to increase significantly – possibly by up to 75%.

As you can hear from the clip below, I had lots of questions to ask the Deputy Prime Minister yesterday.

I’m meeting with St Albans District Council leadership and officials next week to understand their issues and concerns about what the proposed changes could mean for our area.

My initial reading is that there are some positives: eg a greater focus on building more social and affordable homes, and potentially more powers for local authorities to ensure that infrastructure comes first. My long-running campaign to scrap the Government-imposed cap on planning fees might finally come to fruition too.

The Lib Dem-led St Albans District Council are powering ahead to deliver a Local Plan as the only way of protecting greenbelt sites from speculative developments (after the previous Conservative administration produced two that failed). But the Labour Government’s consultation is a real curve-ball and we’re just not sure yet how this will affect our local area or the Local Plan process.

It will take a few weeks to go through the details and work out whether any exemptions, exceptions or protections exist for Greenbelt sites, the whole purpose of which is to stop urban sprawl.

I will keep local residents updated on social media and also through my monthly newsletters.

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A Liberal Democrat King’s Speech would have included these commitments:

Paid carer’s leave

Care to be declared as a protected characteristic

A Royal College of Care Workers

Tackling the scandal of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments

Cross-party talks to agree a long-term financial footing

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Under the Conservatives, the New Hospital Programme ground to a halt.

This week I asked the Labour government about its plans for hospitals including here in West Herts.

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This includes patients needing blood tests before urgent treatment and the immunocompromised needing Covid anti-virals.

In light of the Crowdstrike IT outage last week I challenged ministers on their contingency plans.

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We Liberal Democrats believe that we must build our defence and diplomatic capacity and work ever closer with our European allies.

Here’s what I said on Sky News:

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