• It’s Blue Wall Monday and families are paying the price
• PC David Carrick: Lib Dems call for immediate investigation

It’s Blue Wall Monday and families are paying the price

Today marks Blue Monday when Brits are left counting up their Christmas bills.

For families in the Blue Wall, there is an additional hit to their finances: The Conservative Government.

New analysis by the Liberal Democrats reveals the typical family in the South East will be £760 worse off this January compared to last year – including paying an extra £620 more a month in mortgage bills after the Conservative party’s economic vandalism.

Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said:

This Blue Wall Monday, the Liberal Democrats are calling for an end to Conservative party chaos which has left families facing unaffordable bills.

Blue Wall voters face a clear choice at the next election: Four more years of the economic vandals who hiked your bills, or a hardworking Liberal Democrat MP who will never play politics with your mortgage.

The £760 a month hit to a typical family in the South East is made up of:

PC David Carrick: Lib Dems call for immediate investigation

Responding to the news that Metropolitan Police Officer David Carrick has committed 40 attacks on women making him one of the worst sexual offenders in modern criminal history, Liberal Democrat Leader, Ed Davey said:

This case is shocking and disturbing.

Officers like David Carrick need to be identified and rooted out quickly, with investment in quality supervision and training to ensure the small number of officers who abuse their position are removed immediately.

For the sake of his victims and survivors, there should be an investigation into how the alarm bells and red flags have been ignored in this case. Without swift action, the public will not regain trust in the police.