“Boris Johnson failed our country and Liz Truss trashed our economy.  “People in Stone deserve better than this incompetent and chaotic government, which has sent mortgages spiralling while our NHS services are stretched to breaking point. “The Conservative party have proven time and time again they are not fit to lead our great country.  “This […]

Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Stone, Alec Sandiford has called on Bill Cash to oppose Kwasi Kwarteng’s “shambolic” budget. The call comes as the pound plummets to a record low against the dollar, which risks leading to rising food and petrol prices and spiking mortgage interest rates.  The Liberal Democrats are demanding Parliament be recalled […]

The number of people who’ve seen an NHS dentist in Staffordshire has plummeted in recent years, shocking new figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats have revealed. Only 4 in 10 adults in Staffordshire were able to secure an appointment with an NHS dentist in the past two years. This is down from 5 in ten […]

Revealed: 34.37% of crimes went unsolved last year in Staffordshire  Staffordshire Police closed almost 23,801 cases last year without even identifying a suspect, new analysis by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.   The party’s analysis of new Home Office figures has found that, of the 69,259 offences committed between April 2021 and March 2022 where […]

Stone Liberal Democrats have called on Bill Cash to get behind their calls for a rural fuel duty cut.  The new Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton Richard Foord tabled a motion on his first day in Parliament to double Rural Duty Rate Relief to 10p and expand the scheme to cover areas like […]

Partygate pictures: Boris Johnson has taken the British people for fools Responding to images being released of Boris Johnson drinking at a party in Downing Street during Covid restrictions, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Stone, Alec Sandiford said: “People will rightly be furious to see pictures of Johnson drinking at what is an obvious party, […]

Stafford and Stone’s Liberal Democrats have today slammed Bill Cash and Theo Clarke for voting against an emergency tax cut in the House of Commons on Wednesday.  It comes as over 300 Conservative MPs voted against the measures put forward by the Liberal Democrats to cut VAT from 20% to 17.5%.  This proposal would be […]

The call comes as it can be revealed that Severn Trent Water, which provides services for Stafford and Stone, pumped sewage into local waterways 120,666 times during 2020 and 2021.

Families in the Stafford authority are paying £16,275,965.40 more a year for their energy bills because they are living in poorly insulated homes, research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. Stafford and Stone Liberal Democrats are demanding that the government urgently invest in fixing leaky homes in the area and cutting people’s energy bills in […]

Typical family in Stafford and Stone is set to pay an extra £136 in national insurance contributions (NICs) this year as cost of living crunch hits. Local businesses are also set to feel the squeeze with £ 12,742,571 tax hit. Lib Dems demand an emergency VAT tax cut to put money back in the pockets […]