Two candidates confirmed for Lib Dem leadership race
Liberal Democrat MPs Ed Davey and Layla Moran will be the two candidates contesting the latest Liberal Democrat leadership contest, the party has confirmed. … Read the full post »
Layla Moran
Layla Moran was elected as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon at the 2017 general election, taking the seat off the Conservatives.
She had also contested the seat in 2015, after having previously stood in Battersea and for the London Assembly.
A former maths and physics teacher, she was the first Liberal Democrat from an ethnic minority background to be elected at a general election. (Her mother is Palestinian.)
She has been the party’s education spokesperson and was briefly arrested by the police in 2013, as she explained in a public statement in 2019.
You can find contact details for Layla Moran here.
Nominations for Liberal Democrat party leader open
Yes, my time as an obscure political quiz question answer is drawing to a close, as this latest press release from the party indicates. … Read the full post »
Getting the Liberal Democrats back on track: LDN #137
It’s a busy time putting the Liberal Democrats back on track: the big independent election review, a leadership timetable, plans for an online party conference that would be a first for British politics, creating a new party strategy, updating our policy and more. … Read the full post »
A worrying lack of evidence about the safety of reopening schools
The Department of Education’s chief scientific adviser has not made any assessment on how effective the guidance on safe reopening of schools is or how it might be implemented. … Read the full post »
Cross-party group demand measures to prevent Covid-19 causing rise in modern slavery
A cross-party group led by the Liberal Democrats has set out a package of demands to protect workers from exploitation during the coronavirus crisis and prevent a rise in modern slavery. … Read the full post »
A fair society is a resilient society: the future for the Lib Dems (LDN #136)
A fair society is one that can best protect and nourish us in the face of the challenges of the age, immediate ones such as coronavirus, long-term ones such as climate change, and endemic ones such as social injustice. … Read the full post »
Lib Dems lead call for Covid-19 Committee to ensure scrutiny from all parties
Representatives from five of the nine parties represented in the House of Commons have joined the Liberal Democrats in calling for steps be taken to guarantee “smaller parties are heard during this time of crisis.” … Read the full post »
Government backs Lib Dem calls to compensate bereaved families of NHS staff
“This is a win for my cross-party campaign to introduce a Coronavirus Compensation Scheme, backed by The Express and The Times newspapers” – Layla Moran … Read the full post »
Lib Dems demand action on disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on BAME groups
The Liberal Democrats are calling for new measures to improve monitoring of coronavirus in BAME communities. … Read the full post »
Layla Moran: “Make 2020 the year that we finally scrap the Vagrancy Act”
Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran is urging the Government to adopt her legislation this year and “finally scrap the Vagrancy Act”. … Read the full post »