Responding to the relaunch of the National Education Union’s ‘School Cuts’ website, which reveals that more than 15,000 schools will have less money per pupil in real terms in 2020 than they did in 2015, Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary Layla Moran said:
 
“The Conservatives continue to fail our children. This data removes the wool that Boris Johnson tried to throw over our eyes – that he is making parents and teachers wait for the money their schools desperately need.

The Liberal Democrats have slammed the Tories as “heartless” for starving the NHS of vital cash after revealing Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust paid £4,132,671 in interest on outstanding debt over the last five years.

Former Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, warned taxpayers money being spent “lining the Government’s coffers instead of training more doctors and nurses" was “an absolute slap in the face to all of us that rely on the NHS”.

The Liberal Democrats were just 32 votes away from pulling off a sensational victory over Hull’s Labour bosses in September.

At Full Council on Thursday (18 July) Hull Lib Dem councillors will be moving a motion to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings.

Liberal Democrat analysis of new Home Office figures, published this week, has revealed that the Conservative Government cut funding to Humberside Police by -6.2% in real terms between 2015-16 and 2019-20.

Hull Liberal Democrats are calling on the Government to reverse school cuts and to guarantee a pay rise for teachers in the city.

Between 2015 and 2019 schools in Hull lost out on £32.2m. This equates to a loss of £367 per pupil in the city. Sign the petition here.

The message was clear - voters in Hull are ready for change! At the local elections on 2 May, the Lib Dems in Hull got more votes than Labour for the first time since 2008.

Cllr John Robinson (Avenue Ward) has tabled a motion to March's Full Council meeting (Thursday 21 March) declaring a Climate Emergency and calling for urgent action to limit global warming.

The fight to save The Deep stepped up a gear, with senior Lib Dem MP Sir Ed Davey visiting Hull to lend his support to the campaign.

Lib Dem councillors are campaigning to save The Deep in light of Council proposals to demolish the attraction's business centre. Read the details and get the real facts on the issue.