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Updates:

1. Contradictory amendments show only way forward is a people’s vote

Press Release:

1     Labour MPs who sided with the Tories have become handmaids to Brexit

2.   The only compromise that the PM should consider is a people’s vote

3    Tory cuts have made it easy for ‘county lines’ drug traffickers

4.   Time to scrap cruel Vagrancy Act

Updates:

Contradictory amendments show only way forward is a people’s vote

Following both Sir Graham Brady’s and Dame Caroline Spelman’s amendments passing last night in the House of Commons, note following comments:

• Liberal Democrats have been fighting for over two years to give the people the final say

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Updates:

1.  Home Office EU Settled Status Scheme

2.  National Audit Office report on children’s social care

Todays Press Release:

1   Sony’s move symbolic of Brexit uncertainty 

2.  Liberal Democrats move to prevent May from holding Parliament hostage on Brexit

3  Moran: PAC report highlights the increasing fragmentation of schools system

Home Office EU Settled Status Scheme – 

It is all very well to say that in the modern world, relying on a reference number that would give prospective employers or landlords access to the Home Office computer is enough. But in the wake of the Windrush, nobody trusts Home Office record-keeping.

Everyone knows that many eligible EU citizens won’t get their settled status in time from this incompetent Home Office by the end of the application period.

EU citizens living here in the UK are rightly worried what will happen after Brexit – especially in the event of a disastrous crash-out Brexit – and the Home Secretary should not dismiss those fears.

Thousands of EU citizens are being left at risk of being effectively undocumented and subject to Theresa May’s hostile environment.

Liberal Democrats demand better for the Europeans who’ve made their lives here and contribute so much to our economy, our public services and our society.

National Audit Office report on children’s social care – 

We thought the days of Oliver Twist were long behind us, but this report shows otherwise. The Department for Education must listen to the NAO’s recommendations to ensure children’s lives are not at stake.

It absolutely beggars belief that Conservative Ministers don’t understand what has caused the increase in demand for children’s services. They should look in the mirror. They have consistently stripped away support in communities that need it the most.

Liberal Democrats demand better. Nothing is more important than making sure the most vulnerable children are looked after in society. Ministers must stop posturing and start understanding the real issues we face.