Lib Dems close in on taking Esher & Walton.
A seat poll conducted by Survation and commissioned by the Liberal Democrats for the parliamentary constituency of Esher and Walton has shown the Liberal Democrats are best placed to defeat Dominic Raab.
We had a fantastic visit to Hinchley Wood School with Jo Swinson and Ed Davey, today. A big thank you to Ben Bartlett, the headteacher, and all the wonderful staff for hosting us all.
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Monica Harding’s general election campaign had a prime slot on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday morning.
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Both the Conservatives and Labour are stuck in the past, failing time and time again to deliver a better future. Vote for me to stop Brexit and help me build a brighter future for all.
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This was a slickly run sit-down dinner, drawing hundreds of mostly well-heeled locals exuding crossness about Brexit; were I a local Conservative, I would be worried .
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Esher and Walton voted 60% to Remain in the EU. 40% voted to Leave, but not for No Deal - that was never part of the Referendum campaign. The Brexit-Tory party and its hard-right Brexiteer MP Dominic Raab are not representative here.
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The £1.8bn is not new money, our economy is not in good health and the Prime Minister has lied. At best, his announcement is a sticking plaster for an NHS in critical condition; at worst, it covers up a Brexit bung, shiny new hospitals to distract from the No Deal catastrophe ahead.
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On his first Monday in his new job as Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab was all over the media. He was even trending on Twitter by the evening. Although he’s usually quick to retweet his best bits, his own feed was strangely silent after all this activity. Why such uncharacteristic modesty?
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Boris Johnson has finally achieved his life’s ambition. The votes of just 160,000 Tory Party members (that’s less than 0.3% of the UK’s electorate) have secured for him the keys to Number 10. And with the keys, the Brexit mess he and his fellow hardline Brexiteers have created: a divided country, an imploding party and a dangerously uncertain future for Britain in Europe, and in the world. Boris Johnson has come full circle - he created the Brexit shambles, now it is time for him to own it.
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Voters are embracing positivity, the Lib Dems and remaining in the EU.
When the local government election results came in on 3rd May – over 1300 seats lost by the Tories, the Labour party failing to capitalise on the Tory collapse and losing over 80 of their own Councillors, and over 700 won by the Liberal Democrats – did you look at them and think that’s an electorate telling Theresa May to “get on with Brexit”? No, me neither.
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Latest From Monica Harding For Esher & Walton Spring 2019. What a mess we’re in. Whichever way you voted on Brexit, there’s no arguing that the Government’s handling of it has been a disaster.
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Another Telegraph article from Dominic Raab and another blatant tilt at the Tory leadership, all dressed up as serious policy making. No mention of the Tory government’s shameful nine-year record that has exacerbated the housing crisis in the UK.
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A week is a long time in politics, even at a time of stability and good government. Now, it feels like an eternity. Less than a week ago, the Prime Minister addressed the nation and told them “I am on your side”. Since then, over five and a half million people have signed the petition to revoke Article 50 and over a million people took to the streets of London on Saturday on the People’s Vote March.
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A mum of four, as well as a Vice Chair of Governors at a local school, I’ve seen how Tory funding cuts are impacting our schools at first hand. You may have seen the A mum of four, as well as a Vice Chair of Governors at a local school, I’ve seen how Tory funding cuts are impacting our schools at first hand.
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On 14th January 2019, the day before voting against his own Government’s Withdrawal Agreement, Dominic Raab gave a speech at the Centre for Policy Studies about his vision for “a bright future for small businesses, workers and consumers” in a post-Brexit UK.
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The Liberal Democrats have long been opposed to a third runway at Heathrow. While there is a need for increased airport provision given increasing efforts to open global mobility and trade in the UK, the Liberal Democrats have argued that Heathrow is the wrong place to do it.
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Local schools face funding crisis - a letter from the headteacher of Hinchley Wood School.
In short, schools are still not being provided with adequate funding and resource to deliver the level of provision and support that is expected and that our families and children deserve.
“Passengers must come first” - Ed Davey’s hard-hitting report
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Ed Davey, spoke to Politics students at Esher College in support of their Raise the Rate campaign
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