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Conservatives have forgotten 6407 fraud victims in Staffordshire  

The Liberal Democrats have accused the Government of forgetting victims of fraud in Staffordshire after senior Conservative Ministers overlooked fraud and computer misuse offences when making false…

Lichfield Conservative MP, Michael Fabricant, unwavering in his support for Boris Johnson. What does this say about Michael Fabricant?

Cllr Paul Ray, who stood against Mr Fabricant in the last General Election, has commented in Lichfield Live about Mr Fabricant's stance on Partygate. The Liberal Democrat representative said:

Helen Morgan's witty maiden speech and the Judicial Review and Courts Bill

This week Helen Morgan, the new MP for North Shropshire, made her maiden speech(1). It's worth listening to. It has a nice mixture of civility (much needed in our public discourse), wit and…

West Midlands Ambulance Service Performance Figures.

The latest performance figures for the English Ambulance Trusts were released two weeks ago. For WMAS it is impressive how, despite the extreme difficulty of maintaining an emergency service,…

Lichfield Friarsgate site

In response to the promise from the Lichfield District Council's leader that the next 12 months would see some progress with the former Friarsgate site Cllr Paul Ray writes, "The patience of…

A Normal Conservative Winter?

The first duty of a government is the security of its people. How many times have you heard that? It's usually to justify more spending on defence or harsher prison sentences. But why does it not…

A New Year Message from Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats

Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you had a great Christmas. I am so looking forward to 2022 - I hope it's the year we will finally beat Covid, that Liberal Democrats will keep beating the…

North Shropshire Election

What terrific news from North Shropshire. LTB welcomes the election last Thursday of Helen Morgan to this thoroughly safe Conservative seat. Could anything like that happen in Lichfield,…

Time to Change the Electoral System

The out-of-date way MPs are elected to Westminster is failing voters