Liberal Democrats to table new bill in major endorsement of i's Save Britain's Rivers campaign
Liberal Democrats to table new bill in major endorsement of i's Save Britain's Rivers campaignA new Save Britain’s Rivers bill will be tabled within the first 100 days of the new Parliament in an effort to hold the next government to account, the party has committed to tabling fresh legislation to force the incoming administration to crack down on water companies dumping waste into the country’s waterways.
Such a bill would allow the Lib Dems to claim Labour had voted against clean rivers if they did not support it.: “It’s going to do exactly what it says on the tin, we’re going to call Save Britain’s Rivers Bill.” The Lib Dems leader discussed his plans for a new Save Britain’s Rivers Bill during a whistlestop tour that took in the Tory held target of Hazel Grove in bucolic Greater Manchester, the Lib Dem seat of North Shropshire and finally the Conservative stronghold of Witney, where he threw himself into his role as entertainer-in-chief in an effort to grab the attention of an electorate sick of politics.about his campaign, Sir said: “We’ve done it differently.
According to some MRP forecasts, the Lib Dems could even leapfrog the Conservatives, moving it from being the fourth-biggest party in parliament to the official opposition. Returning the number of Lib Dem MPs to healthy double-digits would mark a major success for its leader, having lost his own seat back in 2015 after the party was severely punished for its decision to go into coalition with the Tories and in particular its U-turn on trebling tuition fees.
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