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Suzanne Fletcher, Chair of Liberal Democrats for Seekers of Sanctuary (LD4SOS)

A Liberal idea to empower claimants

At Conference we agreed a policy motion, "Mending the safety net", on ways of stopping people from falling into poverty caused by problems with social security nets. Leaving aside the heated arguments for how this would best work, how about involving those we are talking about in having a needle and thread too ? Whatever the ways we have of mending the safety net, those who need it must be able to understand the letters that they are sent from the officials concerned.

SF
4 Oct 2016
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Incredible

Today, I joined dozens of activists in Witney to open Liz Leffman's by-election HQ - and I don't mind telling you, the buzz was incredible.

TF
30 Sep 2016
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Tim Farron speaking on unaccompanied refugees

Lord Roger Roberts write…highlighting the plight of child refugees

The Refugee Crisis is especially severe when we look at the fate of those who are young and alone. The United Kingdom is pledged to accommodate those most in need. The Dubs amendment originally called for 3,000 to be allowed into the United Kingdom. This was defeated and I sat on the bench in the Lords as 200 Tories marched through the Not Content lobby. These fathers, mothers and grandparents were trampling on the hopes of thousands of "other" children. Eventually an amendment was approved obliging the government to accept an unspecified number of children. We are told that throughout Europe there are 88,000 unaccompanied asylum seekers. Human Rights Watch says that alarming numbers of migrant children in Greece are being detained in deplorable and depraved conditions. Unaccompanied minors - some as young as 14 - are being held in substandard and chaotic detention centres across the country in flagrant violation of international and Greek law, the group said in a report on Friday.

LRL
30 Sep 2016
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Double Lib Dems gains from Tories kick off by-election results

Another Lib Dem win with a big vote increase to kick off the results from the eight by-elections today. Congratulations Adrian England and his team in Dacorum: Most unusually, up to and including 2011 this ward was a Conservative versus Labour battle, but a 2013 Lib Dem by-election win from third place was followed in 2015 by the ward being split one Lib Dem, one Conservative in the elections. Now it is all Lib Dem.

MP
30 Sep 2016
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