Rural areas set to be hit hardest by energy bill price hike, including Stone and Staffordshire Moorlands who will pay £714 more from April  Rural areas in England and Wales will be hit hardest by the expected rise in energy bills in April, new research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. New analysis of ONS data […]

Email on Number 10 drinks party “adding insult to injury” Responding to reports by ITV News that Downing Street staff were invited to a drinks party in the Number 10 garden during the national lockdown on May 20 2020, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Stone, Alec Sandiford said:“This is yet more evidence that while the vast majority […]

Stafford Borough Council (SBC) will be charging £36 for the collection of our brown bins. Don’t want to pay? Well they simply won’t take it away. This fee is unfair. Why? Council tax will not be reduced if you don’t pay for collection. SBC compost our waste in Stone and sell it to farmers and […]

Figures reveal seven in ten Christmas burglaries in Staffordshire go unsolved  Most burglaries committed in Staffordshire during the Christmas period go unsolved by the police, new analysis by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. 146 burglaries in Staffordshire went unsolved by police in the period between October and December last year. Overall, 68.9% of burglary cases […]

Stafford and Stone Liberal Democrats have today written to the Secretary of State for Energy Kwasi Kwarteng demanding that he backs the party’s call for a “Robin Hood” tax on the super-profits of oil and gas firms, to raise money to support local families facing soaring energy costs.  The proposed one-off levy could raise over […]

The Liberal Democrats have today slammed the Conservatives’ broken promise to Afghans as a “total betrayal”. It comes after a statement from Home Office minister Victoria Atkins in Parliament revealed that women, girls, and religious and other minorities in Afghanistan have been put to the back of the queue of the Government’s resettlement scheme.  Liberal […]

Liberal Democrats celebrating extraordinary by-election victory overnight in North Shropshire The Liberal Democrats are on track to win seats across the country at the next General Election, including Stone, following their historic by-election victory overnight.  The Liberal Democrats won the once safe Conservative seat of North Shropshire, overturning the Conservatives majority of almost 23,000 votes. […]

Responding to the ITV video which shows Downing Street staff laughing last year about a Christmas party being held, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Stone, Alec Sandiford said: “Bill Cash must condemn Boris Johnson’s behaviour and apologise on behalf of their party. “Boris Johnson’s Conservative party is taking this country for fools. People in this area […]

Stafford and Stone Liberal Democrats have slammed Bill Cash for using a loophole to continue employing his wife, despite a change in the rules in 2017.  Following the recent scandal surrounding Owen Paterson’s resignation, several national newspapers have reported more than 100 MPs still employ a close relative using taxpayers money, despite a rule change […]

The Liberal Democrats have called for a “Sewage Tax” on water companies to prevent raw sewage polluting rivers and lakes.  Today MPs will vote again on the Environment Bill which includes new rules on sewage being dumped into rivers.Water companies pumped polluting and harmful raw sewage in national water sources over 400,000 times last year. […]