Baroness Williams of Crosby remembered by Rt Hon Sir Simon Hughes
The death of Shirley Williams is for so many the hugely sad passing of a campaigning, charismatic, courageous, entertaining, eloquent, energetic, radical, reasonable, rebellious, restless and principled woman of deep catholic Christian faith and commitment to egalitarian, social democratic political reform both at home and abroad.
Read moreAnnouncing new Southwark Liberal Democrat Council Group Leader – Cllr Hamish McCallum
Southwark Liberal Democrats are pleased to announce Cllr Hamish McCallum has been elected to take over as leader of the Liberal Democrat Council Group at Southwark Council. This follows Cllr Nick Johnson’s decision to step down from the leadership position due to growing work and professional commitments.
Read moreClimate emergency - Up your ambition Southwark Council
Climate Change – Time to act and be more ambitious for Southwark say the Southwark Liberal Democrat Councillor Group in their response to the council's consultation on “Tackling the Climate Emergency Together"
Read moreLabour chooses 5 years of Fossil Fuels over Green Energy for Southwark
The Liberal Democrats are deeply shocked Southwark Labour have chosen to burn fossil fuels to 2025 and spend nearly £70 million pounds in doing so ...
Read moreWe stand together with Elephant Traders’ bid for new space.
Many traders are still without a place to go as Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre closes...
Despite years of broken promises by Southwark Labour and Delancey (the developer) to relocate them, over 33 Latin American and other ethnicity market traders are still without a place to go as demolition looms.
Read moreLD Leader's new monthly column in local paper Southwark News
Once in a lifetime opportunity to ‘Rethink our Normal’ - Lib Dem Leader Cllr Nick Johnson starts new column this month in Southwark News - focusing on Canada Water Masterplan transport chaos and signs of hope amid Covid Pain ...
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New leader for Southwark Cllr group to ensure residents and local business are at the heart of COVID recovery
We are pleased to announce Cllr Nick Johnson has been elected to take over as Leader of the Liberal Democrat Opposition at Southwark Council. This follows Cllr Anood Al-Samerai’s decision to call it time and hand on the baton after 10 incredible years of her leadership in representing the voice of residents.
Don’t cut Southwark’s vital legal services when they are most needed
The Liberal Democrat Opposition Councillors have successfully called on the Council to stop cutting their funding provided to Citizen’s Advice Bureau and Southwark Law Centre as vital legal services needed in Southwark during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Southwark Lib Dem Councillors call foul on Southwark’s Climate Emergency Declaration
The lack of progress 15 months after the Climate Emergency that Southwark Council declared in March 2019, has been slammed by the Opposition Southwark Liberal Democrat Council Group.
The Lib Dem group successfully called in Labour’s recent cabinet report to scrutiny by raising concerns that the Council was hiding behind the pandemic by reducing consultation on the Climate Strategy. They now call for the Council to work harder to ensure that this does not happen.
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