Daisy Cooper MP 🔶

We Liberal Democrats are fighting to save the high street and cut your cost of living.

Our plan would cut your energy bills, slash VAT for hospitality, and put £270 back in your pocket.

All paid for by a windfall tax on the QE-related unexpected profits of the big banks.

The BBC belongs to Britain, but Trump wants to tear it down.

We can’t allow the Trumpification of our politics or our media.

We @libdems.org.uk would put £270 back in your pocket, by:

🍻 Cutting VAT for hospitality, attractions and accommodation

💡Slashing household energy bills

We’d fund this through a windfall tax on excess profits made by big banks, rather than higher taxes for struggling families and businesses.

A damning indictment of Labour’s decisions.

From the jobs tax to business rates bills, the economy is barely spluttering along.

The Government must take up our plans to save our high streets, put money back in the pockets of families, and fix our broken relationship with Europe.

Congratulations @victoria-collins.bsky.social 👏

Congratulations @joshbabarinde.bsky.social 👏

Hospitality is on its knees.

A 5% VAT cut would give our economy and our high streets the lifeline they need.

Today, we pay tribute to everyone who fought to protect our freedoms, and who lost their lives.

Lest we forget.

📷 Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force

The Govt. must decide what they think is fairer, taxing struggling families or taxing big banks?

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This wasn’t pitch rolling, it was pointless. The Budget will be a bitter pill to swallow as the Government seems to have run out of excuses.

We can’t keep punishing households, high streets and hospices whilst big banks and social media giants don't pay their fair share.

Nobody gets more airtime or less scrutiny than Nigel Farage.

Fury as Nigel Farage 'to betray pensioners and unleash austerity' Nigel Farage and Reform were branded 'vultures' who would betray pensioners and bring in a new era of austerity after a major speech in the City of London when previous tax plans were axed

Farage is no champion of pensioners — he’d betray them if he ever reached Downing Street.

We @libdems.org.uk will fight to protect the pensioners of today and tomorrow from the vultures in Reform UK.

We just stopped Nigel Farage’s plan to drag Britain out of the ECHR and tear up people’s rights. Farage wanted to scrap Churchill’s legacy and bring us closer to Trump's America.

We just defeated Nigel Farage’s Bill in Parliament to tear up people’s rights and withdraw from the ECHR.

Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into a version of Trump's America. We stopped him.

Nigel Farage is colluding with anti-abortion groups in the America to roll back women’s rights in the UK.

We won’t stand for it. The Liberal Democrats will not let allow Trump’s America to become Farage’s Britain.

Welcome to the team @charliemaynard.bsky.social

GB News losing their mind over the fact we @libdems.org.uk just defeated Farage and Reform

Daisy Cooper makes it clear: if Nigel Farage is serious about tackling racism in his party, he needs to act now.

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

Ministers need to roll up their sleeves and set out a proper plan to slash energy bills, tackle food prices by backing our farmers, cut red tape for business, and boost jobs by scrapping the damaging jobs tax. [2/2]

🧵 The Government can’t keep sitting on its hands - thoughts and prayers won’t fix this.

As families look on at the ever increasing costs of food bills, energy bills, children’s school uniforms and more, the winter is looking very expensive and very bleak. [1/2]

Tax raid on solicitors and GPs as Rachel Reeves targets wealthy The chancellor considers the national insurance exemptions offered by limited liability partnerships to be unfair, and will use her budget to change the rules

If the Government is planning to bring forward fair reforms asking the super-wealthy to pay their fair share of tax then we will look at them closely, but this simply cannot become a jobs tax 2.0 for self-employed people in the squeezed middle.

The Government must ignore the naysayers in Reform UK and the Conservative party, and deliver on its “EU-reset” - starting with a better deal that will cut red tape for our fishers, farmers and food traders, adding billions to our economy and helping keep food prices down for families. [3/3]

"The Chancellor must now turn words into actions. The best way to put money back into people's pockets and give businesses a boost is by negotiating an ambitious bespoke new UK-EU customs union - cutting through reams of red tape and unleashing trade with our European neighbours. [2/3]

Brexit blame game returns ahead of Budget UK fiscal watchdog to link next month’s productivity downgrade to EU exit and Covid-19

🧵 Finally, the Government are putting an end to their 'mum's the word' approach to the economic disasterclass that is Brexit.

The botched Brexit deal - dreamt up by Farage and delivered by the Conservatives - has delivered nothing but extra red tape, extra costs, and crushed opportunity. [1/3]

Today's GDP figures show the Government is simply not doing enough to kickstart growth.  

The Chancellor must quit her slowcoach approach to the economy and finally drop her damaging national insurance hike, which has stifled business and hit high streets up and down the country

Elon Musk is stoking far-right extremism on our streets.

The Prime Minister should order a security assessment of the threat Musk poses to our democracy.

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

#PMQs

Hong Kongers in St Albans and around the UK are asking whether the Prime Minister is trading their safety and security in our communities, in favour of having a cosier relationship with Beijing.

At #PMQs I challenged the Prime Minister directly on this

Great meeting of our new @libdems.org.uk Economy & Business team yesterday. Alongside myself as Treasury Spokesperson, we are:

🔸 @joshuareynoldssl6.bsky.social Trade
🔸Sarah Olney MP Business
🔸 @stevedarlingmp.bsky.social DWP
🔸Charlie Maynard MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

…and Jennie 🦮

Chancellor Rachel Reeves admits tax rises and spending cuts considered for budget Speaking exclusively to Sky's deputy political editor Sam Coates, Rachel Reeves says Brexit, austerity, and the Liz Truss mini-budget have all played a role in damaging Britain's economy - as she prep...

Families and businesses fear more tax hikes after the Tories' stealth tax and this Government’s unfair jobs tax. The Chancellor must rule out extending these stealth taxes. We need a real growth plan and the big banks, tech giants and gambling firms must be made to pay their fair share.

Ming was a principled politician, and had such generosity of spirit. We @libdems.org.uk are so proud to have had him as one of our own.

My thoughts are with his family and friends as he’s laid to rest today. May he rest in peace.