ELECTION ON THURSDAY – A Final and Vital Favour

Dear fellow resident I want to start by thanking everyone who has supported my campaign over the past few weeks. Irrespective of the final result, it has been an honour to be your Liberal Democrat candidate in this most unpredictable of elections. I will be back in touch to report on the result, but for [...]

Council for Protection of Rural England’s Manifesto for Surrey

I today pledged my support for the CPRE’s Manifesto for Surrey. As someone who has campaigned on environmental issues for many years, I am pleased to support them and their valuable work, which aims to protect green belt land in Surrey today and for future generations. The Manifesto pledges to protect the life and protection of [...]

Nick Clegg launches ‘My Personal Guarantee’

Nick Clegg‘s pledge reads: “This is my personal guarantee that I will use all the support you give me on Thursday to deliver fairness in Britain. “We need a fairer tax system. I will use your votes to cut taxes for those at the bottom and in the middle and close the loopholes for those [...]

Let’s talk about tuition fees

On Wednesday I spent a few hours with the students at Woking College. It was a very enlightening few hours talking to them about their feelings and concerns for the future. One of the biggest fears that students and their parents have today is the level of debt that they will be left with then [...]

“It’s time we all took more care of our eyes ….”

I today took part in a quiz from RNIB to raise awareness amongst election candidates of the leading causes of sight loss. Questions also ask who can get free eye tests and how many of us are already living with sight problems. Six million older people at risk of blindness There are around 1.8 million people [...]