Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment and persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party is an outrage. The Prime Minister should summon the Chinese Ambassador today, and demand Jimmy Lai's immediate release and the quashing of this trumped-up sentence.

''People across Britain want a Prime Minister focused on the cost of living, the NHS and social care, not on his own survival while the country pays the price.'' @libdemdaisy.bsky.social

📰 In my latest Middy column, I discussed the issue of 'Corridor Care' in Sussex hospitals and what needs to be done to eradicate this from our health service, for the benefit of both patients and staff. Have a read here: www.midsussexlibdems.org.uk/news/article...

"It looks like the two main parties are definitely down and quite possibly out." @JoshBabarinde.bsky.social

Morgan McSweeney’s resignation means that Keir Starmer no longer has a human shield on which to blame Labour’s misfortunes. If the PM continues on a right wing, blue Labour path, then his career is all but dead.

Trump is a vile racist bully We should all condemn this without hesitation. But something tells me Farage will find a way to make excuses for his best mate Trump. I hope I’m wrong.

Burgess Hill Creative Community is a friendly social hub which provides a space for people to take part in skill-sharing activities like crafts, pottery and weaving. Learn more about the BHCC at www.bhcreativecommunity.co.uk or watch their video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dj9...

This week, @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social stood up for SEND families, pushing for Christopher’s Law after the heart-breaking case of Christopher Laskaris. We won't stop fighting for real change for SEND families.

Have you finished planning your event(s) for this year? Make sure it is seen by the town! Our Events Calendar is the go-to place to find out what’s happening across Haywards Heath - and local groups, organisers and venues can add their own events directly to the calendar for free. buff.ly/O4ieKCV

Today is World Cancer Day. We've made great strides in the fight against cancer, but there's much more to do. It's fantastic charities like 'Walk The Walk' that keep us moving in the right direction.

Once again, I have written to South East Water to ask for data on customer demand and leakages over the winter, after they responded to my Facebook posts and blamed customer demand for the persisting hosepipe ban. This contradicts their previous communications to customers and stakeholders.

Ed Davey, "We need a public inquiry" "The threat to national security Peter Mandelson posed" "Giving away secrets to someone who could benefit at a time when our country was in peril" "It's quite outrageous"

It doesn't matter where you live in Mid Sussex, you tell me about the dire state of repair of our roads. Roads were left to crumble under the previous Conservative government. I spoke in Parliament today and asked the Minister for Local Transport to do better. The Lib Dems will keep pushing.

This morning, I was on BBC Sussex talking about my petition calling for South East Water to end the hosepipe ban: www.midsussexlibdems.org.uk/news/article...

The damage caused by Brexit was never going to be confined to one area of policy. It’s now clear that potential defence investment is being hobbled by the failed Brexit deal. For the sake of our economy and our security, we badly need a much more urgent approach to reintegration with the EU.

📰In this week's Monday Mail: - A moving exhibition marking Holocaust Memorial Day. - Why do we still have a hosepipe ban? - The spiralling costs of the Royal Sussex County Hospital's helipad. www.midsussexlibdems.org.uk/news/article...

Today, I wrote to South East Water asking why their assessment of groundwater levels differ to those of the Environment Agency, and when they intend to lift the hosepipe ban. Sign my petition calling on South East Water to lift the hosepipe ban here: www.midsussexlibdems.org.uk/campaigns/en...

The Conservatives abandoning the centre right! Badenoch is shifting the Conservatives rightward, just as the ultra right wing former Tories defect to Reform, make it make sense! 🔶 The Lib Dems are the only party left for sensible moderate politicians and voters on the centre/centre left. #LibDems🔶

The EU is where our closest neighbours, allies and partners lie. Of course it makes more sense to align with them. Let’s go all the way though to get our freedoms and opportunities back by the UK joining the EU so we can truly be part of it again

Investment in hospitals is essential, and if a helipad helps critically ill patients reach care faster, that matters. But when NHS capital is so constrained, a £16m project that’s late and limited in use raises serious questions about planning and accountability.

A bit drizzly this afternoon in Burgess Hill, but it was really good to be out chatting to folk on the doorstep after a few weeks off. Thank you 🙏

🚀The @LibDems campaign to re-take Sheffield Hallam at the next General Election is officially GO! 🔶Fantastic to mark the launch with fab candidate Sophie Crossthorn, and dozens of activists! 💥Awesome response on the doors for Sophie - and for Michael, standing for council!

January has been anything but dry, and Ardingly Reservoir is now full. Yet Mid Sussex residents are still under a hosepipe ban. Please sign my petition calling for the hosepipe ban to be lifted. South East Water need to lift the ban now! www.midsussexlibdems.org.uk/campaigns/en...

Last week, I hosted a roundtable with local paediatrician Anna and her colleagues Binita and Kate, who have seen first-hand how excessive screentime affects children and parents physically and mentally. It was invaluable to hear their perspectives and what they believe the next steps are.

South East Water bills are going up by 7%, despite them leaving tens of thousands of people in the region without water over winter. This is unacceptable. So, today I asked the Leader of the House of Commons for a debate on restructuring the water industry into a mutual ownership model.

📰 In my Middy column this week, I talk about a recent visit to Oathall Community College and speaking to young people about social media. Have a read here: www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/politic...

Kemi Badenoch: one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’ 🔶 Lib Dems Daisy Cooper said: “Her slapdown […] sent a clear message to moderate, centre-ground Conservative voters across the country: she doesn’t want their support. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nick Clegg on LBC: "The damage of Brexit might be as great, if not greater, than the great financial crash in 2008."

Nick Clegg: "Nigel Farage's great achievement in life is a disaster for this country, and no one holds him to account."

It was such a great event yesterday with lots of brilliant Sussex producers.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 #LightTheDarkness

It was a pleasure to hold a 'Taste of Sussex' event in Parliament today - along with some of my fellow Sussex Liberal Democrat MPs, John Milne and James MacCleary. Mid Sussex's own J Cocoa supplied an excellent sweet treat. It was great to see so many local businesses represented.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Every year, we remember the millions of people who were systematically murdered in the Holocaust. Their stories remind us of our responsibility to ensure the world never returns to those horrors.

I recently signed a cross-party letter, organised by my Lib Dem colleague Steve Darling MP, calling on the government to finally do the right thing for WASPI women and bring forward compensation proposals.

Great to spend time last Friday with GPs and staff from the Sidney West practice in Burgess Hill, understanding more about the pressures they face looking after their patients.

Proper LOLs at Suella Braverman defecting to Reform... The party that’s spent years attacking the Home Office has just welcomed the person who actually ran the Home Office. Brilliant work lads.

📰 In this week’s Monday Mail, I discuss the impact of excessive screen time on child development, my thoughts regarding recent global events as well as some recommendations that have passed the 'mum test'. Read here: www.midsussexlibdems.org.uk/news/article...

And yet, the Home Office is sticking to its social media policy that encourages use of X over any other platform (as that's the only one on which they say they'll read all the messages they get). They stonewalled again last week when I asked them: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Showing their true colours then. The NHS would be destroyed by Reform UK They’d happily see a US style system where people die or go bankrupt if they get too

Plumpton College in Sussex has pledged £500k to support skills and training for the English wine industry. During the week, I asked a Labour MP if he agreed that we need to build on this so that we have people with the right skills to support one of our rural success stories.

How dare the Coward in the White House undermine the bravery and sacrifice of our British troops. Reform and Nigel Farage should be ashamed to associate themselves with him.

The stronger our ties to our European partners are, the better. Cutting-edge organisations based in Mid Sussex such as CSL Behring and Roche Diagnostics have had a harder time doing business since Brexit. We should be doing everything we can to negotiate a bespoke customs union.

Cotswold DC, The Rissingtons Lib Dem GAIN from Green 🔶LDM (Craig Thurling): 321 (37.5%, new) 🔵CON: 268 (31.3%, -12.1) ➡️RFM: 221 (25.8%, new) 🟢GRN: 47 (5.5%, -51.1) Congrats to Councillor Craig Thurling and the team!

📰 In my Middy column this week, I discuss the recent water crisis in Sussex and Kent, and what this exposes about the fragility of our water supply and the failures of our water companies. Have a read here: www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/opinion...

Weak, weak, weak. This appeasement must end. Starmer should be uniting with our allies against Trump's threats, not splitting off to suck up to him.

South East Water's handling of, and reaction to, the situation across Sussex and Kent over recent weeks has been woeful. Surely item one of their job description is to ensure tap water reaches households?

Lunacy. There's no other word that fits. The Green party would at once remove our only 2 deterrents to foreign aggression. Populists on the left are every bit as dangerous as those on the right.