Lib Dems call for tax cuts for 10,300 small businesses in Leeds In the wake of Small Business Saturday, local Lib Dems call for small businesses in Leeds to be given a tax cut, saving them an average of £5,000. The tax cut would help businesses including local restaurants suffering from Christmas cancellations following new […]
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Liberal Democrat candidate for West Yorkshire Mayor, Cllr Stewart Golton will be at the West Yorkshire Mayoral Hustings on Thursday 1st April at 12.00pm, hosted by Centre for Cities. If you wish to attend, you must register (for free) via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/west-yorkshire-metro-mayor-economy-hustings-tickets-142832336363 […]
A statement on the expansion of Leeds Bradford Airport by Cllr Stewart Golton, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group of Leeds City Council “The air travel industry is at a cross roads. National and Local Government response to the Climate Change crisis by committing to achieve carbon neutrality in the near future will necessarily affect […]
We meet in the depths of winter, in lockdown and online. Our economy, and our society, has faced its biggest shock in generations, and we face the double challenge of Covid and Brexit as we try and emerge from where we are. I want to take us forward a few months to May. That is […]
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Leeds Liberal Democrats have attacked local Conservative boasts about police funding as “smoke and mirrors” that dress up a potential Council Tax rise as if it were extra funding from the Government. Local Conservatives have claimed that “West Yorkshire Police is set to receive an additional £27.3m in its funding, thanks to the Conservative Government’s […]
West Yorkshire Liberal Democrats have chosen high profile Leeds City Councillor Stewart Golton as their candidate for West Yorkshire Mayor. An elected councillor for 20 years, Stewart is the Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on Leeds City Council. He is the party’s sole representative on the West Yorkshire Combined Authority where he has been […]
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“The air travel industry is at a crossroads. National and Local Government response to the Climate Change crisis by committing to achieve carbon neutrality in the near future will necessarily affect an industry whose infrastructure relies on carbon based fuels. Our current experience of the extent of travel restrictions necessary to combat a global pandemic, […]
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Cllr Stewart Golton, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on Leeds City Council reiterated the party’s position on the Black Lives Matter movement in the light of recent controversy over demonstrations and calls for the removal of some monuments: “Too many people’s lives both in the UK and across the world are blighted by discrimination, […]
PARLIAMENT HAD PUT IN PLACE A SYSTEM FOR REMOTE VOTING DURING THE LOCKDOWN THE GOVERNMENT NOW FORCING MPS TO RETURN TO WESTMINSTER TO VOTE IN PERSON ALEC SHELBROOKE MP VOTED IN FAVOUR OF ENDING REMOTE VOTING Leeds Liberal Democrats have criticised Leeds Tory MPs Alec Shelbrooke & Stuart Andrew, for joining Jacob Rees-Mogg in forcing […]
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