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21 May 2020 – today’s press releases (part 1)

By Mark Valladares | Thu 21st May 2020 - 10:30 pm

And if you thought that yesterday was intense…

Lib Dems: Tackling the climate crisis is at the heart of coronavirus recovery
Govt must reimburse missed tuition to student nurses called up to the frontline
51,906 asylum seekers trapped on just £5.39 a day during coronavirus crisis
EU Settled Status deadline must be scrapped, as grants crater during coronavirus crisis
New stats show damaging impact of Priti Patel’s nasty immigration rhetoric

Lib Dems: Tackling the climate crisis is at the heart of coronavirus recovery

The Liberal Democrats have secured cross-party support for their calls for local authorities to be empowered to enact measures that would help tackle the climate emergency as well as recover from the coronavirus crisis.

The cross-party letter sent to Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick states “we cannot simply return ‘back to normal’” and that “tackling the climate emergency is at the heart of our recovery”.

Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for the Climate Emergency, Energy and the Environment Wera Hobhouse initiated the letter, putting forward measures that include incentivising councils to support sustainable travel, revitalising high streets and allowing local authorities to close streets to traffic at allocated times.

Following the letter, Wera Hobhouse said:

We cannot return to ‘normal’ following the Covid-19 crisis. The measures introduced by the Transport Secretary to promote the use of sustainable transport are welcome, but without cross departmental buy-in they will fail to have a lasting impact on how we travel.