l-r: Edmond Rose, Rhian O'Connor and Anthony Austin

The Liberal Democrats have selected candidates for the May local elections in Greenwich West ward. This ward has been a closely fought contest in the past, with the Liberal Democrats coming as close as 83 votes away from beating Labour prior to the Coalition. No other party has ever been anywhere near to beating Labour in Greenwich West.

The Liberal Democrats have announced they will invest more than £53 million more in schools and colleges in Greenwich borough over the next parliament.

The funding for Greenwich borough would reverse cuts to frontline school and college budgets, protect per pupil funding in real terms and ensure no school loses out from changes to funding arrangements.

Our Liberal Democrat champion in south-east London, Simon Hughes, is standing for election again!  Some of us still remember the Bermondsey by-election in 1983, pounding the streets, delivering Good Morning leaflets ludicrously early on Polling Day, and other tasks from the campaign HQ in St James church hall. 

It was amazing to go canvassing with Simon then, and it remains so now because he knows so many people.  For 32 years they knew him too, as a superb MP who would always go the extra mile to help.

70 young people in Greenwich and Woolwich to be stripped of housing benefit

Over 120 young people in constituencies covered by Greenwich Borough will be affected by the Conservative government’s decision to strip 18-21 year olds of housing benefit, research by the House of Commons library commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has shown.

In total 18,000 young people across the country expected to be affected. The Liberal Democrats have committed to reverse the cuts, which came into force at the beginning of this month.

Theresa May has today called for Parliament to vote for a General Election to be held on 8 June 2017.