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Recent figures show that the NHS waiting lists for routine hospital treatment jumped to 6.36 million in March. B & H Liberal Democrats call for measures to tackle the growing backlog as the health of the nation suffers under the Tories.
In Parliament to-day Layla Moran described how online crime in this country costs billions of pounds a year as she called for an Online Crime Agency in the debate on the Queen's speech.
Priti Patel has proposed sending asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing. B & H liberal Democrats echo the description of politicians who describe the idea as "evil and inhumane". How can a civilised country choose to send such people all the way to an African country for processing. According to the Guardian newspaper "Andrew Mitchell, the Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield and a former chief whip, said the new approach was "globally unprecedented" and raised questions around how it would work and how the government would safeguard human rights." B & H liberal Democrats call for Home Secretary to be sacked. Australia abandoned the policy of sending refugees abroad as a failure. So how does Priti Patel think it is going to work? It is one more example of just how incompetent a Home Secretary she is proving to be and calls into question why she is allowed to continue to hold office.
B & H Liberal Democrats praise the action of Lord David Wolfson in resigning from the government, as he described the government's "repeated rule-breaking and breaches of the criminal law" as the reason he could no longer remain a minister. B & H Liberal Democrats commented that as another Minister resigns the Tory government is increasingly exposed as a bunch of charlatans who knowingly lie to the country in order to cling to power, which they then repeatedly abuse.
B & H liberal Democrats repeated Ed Davey's call last night for Boris Johnson to show respect to the country and resign from Office as PM, and to also stand down as an MP. His continual lies to Parliament and the country over his flouting of the law relating to Covid lockdowns, shows total contempt for the people in the face of the enormous sacrifices they made as they followed government mandates to remain isolated and not visit sick and dying relatives.
Students are set to be hit with brutal interest rate hikes under the Tory government according to the National Union of Students (NUS). They say the rate is set to increase to 9% from September this year. B & H Liberal Democrats ask how can this be fair? Our future is dependent on them and it is not right to exploit them in this way. Liberal Democrats continue to campaign for reform to the student loan scheme to make it fairer and less damaging to students.
