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 […]

Ban water company bosses’ bonuses until sewage discharges end Water company bosses were awarded £27m in bonuses while pumping raw sewage into England’s waterways over 1,000 times a dayLib Dems demand a “sewage bonus ban” to ban future bonuses until sewage dumps stopEngland’s water company bosses have awarded themselves almost £27 million in bonuses over […]

The Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservatives of leaving pensioners in Stone with a “hole in their pocket” after breaking a manifesto promise to protect the state pension. In the wake of inflation hitting a thirty year high of 5.5% in January, a typical pensioner in Stone is set to see their income fall by […]