Today I will be voting to protect children from harmful social media. @libdems.org.uk message to social media giants is clear: if your platform spreads harmful content or relies on addictive algorithms, it is not safe for children. Tag your own MP and ask them to back our plan.

Back to Parliament today after recess - here’s what I’m up to

@libdems.org.uk plan to cut graduate tax for public sector workers including doctors, nurses and teachers observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Zetland (Redcar & Cleveland) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 50.5% (+15.2) 🌹 LAB: 21.6% (-25.2) ➡️ RFM: 13.5% (New) 🌍 GRN: 7.4% (New) 🌳 CON: 7.0% (-10.9) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.

If Robert Jenrick hadn’t served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Minister of State for Health and Social Care, and Minister of State for Immigration in the worst government of our lifetimes he might have more credibility.

But spare us the hypocrisy of the Tories accusing the Government of economic mismanagement.

I have spoken to business owners in my constituency who want to continue employing young people/offering apprenticeships but are struggling to keep their heads above water. This is the reality of Labour’s increase to employer NICs. It’s a growth-crushing job tax.

Rachel Reeves doesn’t seem to get it. If you make it more difficult for businesses to turn a profit or continue to trade, then they won’t be able to employ young people or anyone else. There are lots of reasons youth unemployment is increasing - including lack of opportunities.

Not surprising Farage hasn't bothered to announce a health spokesperson - his entire team is populated by politicians who broke the NHS. They've also forgotten about a foreign affairs spokesperson, but I guess they will take their orders straight from Trump's White House anyway.

Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman were both part of the Conservative Government that crashed the economy, failed the NHS, and allowed water companies to dump sewage in our rivers and seas. The Reform Shadow Cabinet is a clown car.

If you needed any more reasons for why orcas do not belong in captivity - this is just so sad #EmptytheTanks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation’s Call for Evidence is open until 17th March. Women and families are being invited to share their experience of maternity and neonatal care in England. ⬇️ www.matneoinv.org.uk/call-for-evi...

Totally wrong. Totally out of step with British values. He should apologise now.

The SEND system isn’t working, not for students, their families, or their teachers. It’s time to stop tinkering at the edges and start transforming our education system.

Labour promised change, instead we're seeing the same old chaos as under the Conservative Party. No wonder the public are so fed up. The PM should hold a confidence vote now so the government can focus on fixing the cost-of-living crisis, the NHS and the economy.

At this point the PM must surely see that McSweeney’s position is completely untenable.

Months ago, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk asked the Prime Minister a simple question: why did he keep backing Mandelson despite his Epstein links, and what leverage might the Trump administration have over him? Instead of answering, he waved it away.

We need a government totally focused on ending the cost-of-living crisis, fixing the NHS and care, and getting our economy growing again. Time for Keir Starmer to say ‘put up or shut up’.

The British people can’t afford for this Labour soap opera to drag on for months. Let’s have a confidence vote now to see whether Labour MPs have any confidence in the Prime Minister, so the government can move on one way or the other and focus on the change our country needs.

He was literally called the Prince of Darkness. And now the position is that they couldn't have possibly guessed he was lying.

cannot imagine how it would feel, reading all those cheery friendly emails to Epstein from famous people after his conviction, if you are yourself a survivor of sexual abuse. On the case for moral leadership, not just an inquiry (tho hell yeah an inquiry too) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mandelson should lose his peerage and he clearly has serious questions to answer.

Following the fire at University Hospital Southampton in the early hours of this morning all planned outpatient appointments have been cancelled for today and visitors are being asked to stay away. www.uhs.nhs.uk/whats-new/ne...

How can the Government insist that it wants to increase opportunity for children to have access in sport and then plan to cut PE spending? Absolutely absurd. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember all those who were murdered in the Holocaust and all genocides. Be the light in the darkness. #HMD2026

Plan 2 Student Loan? Beware, govt is freezing the repayment threshold, should you overpay now? (spoiler: some yes, many no) blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2026/01/bewa... New long read blog incl - What's changed - Why millions can reclaim £100s, - Overpay? AI calc - Failed political action & more...

If you want to stop them, join us. www.libdems.org.uk/join

Suella Braverman is teaming up with Farage to bring Trump-style chaos to Britain.

Reform: The Conservatives broke the country Also Reform: Welcome to another failed Conservative minister who broke the country

Depravity beyond words: US immigration agents detain toddler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Only the Liberal Democrats can defeat Reform and the rise of dangerous, populist politics.

Stephen’s jumpsuits certainly deserved to win. What a series. When does the next one start? #TheTraitors

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!

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

2026 marks the 90th anniversary of the Spitfire's first flight from Southampton airfield, and after a constituent contacted me to say the Spitfire statue was looking worse for wear, I reached out to Southampton Airport who have given it a much-needed clean! ✈️

Trump is acting like an international gangster. The Prime Minister has tried appeasing him for 12 months and has failed. It's time we finally stood up to him and united with our European allies to make him back down.

A reminder that Rosindell claimed more than £125,000 in second home expenses for a flat in London, while designating his childhood home 17 miles away - where his mother lived - as his main address. https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-mp-andrew-rosindell-defects-to-reform-uk-13496013

Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...

Reform is rapidly becoming a sequel to the Conservatives with an even worse cast and terrible plot. Anyone thinking of voting for them should remember how the Tories broke Britain, the damage to our NHS, our schools, the sewage in our rivers and Liz Truss’s disastrous budget.

No surprise to learn X is still permitting users to post these images generated by Grok despite claiming it had taken action. Enough is enough. @ofcom.bsky.social MUST use its powers to shut this down www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Britain is completely broken” says Robert Jenrick whose previous party did their best to break it enabled by the likes of Robert Jenrick (does this man have any self-awareness whatsoever?)

“Britain has been in decline” says Robert Jenrick who served in the Conservative government for 12 years.

After an incredibly busy week in Parliament this morning I held a really busy surgery in my constituency with major issues raised including NHS waiting lists. I cannot understand MPs who are more focused on their own ambition than doing the job they’re paid to do.

It’s another Labour U-turn! My @libdems.org.uk colleagues and I have been calling for the Government to drop their unworkable and costly compulsory digital ID plans - delighted they have seen sense! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Elon Musk’s response proves he has no interest in protecting women and children or preventing online harms. The Online Safety Act is already out of date but Ofcom should use its (limited) powers and suspend access to X in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just two weeks into January and the BBC has already given us one of the best dramas of the year (apart from The Traitors). Waiting For The Out is beautifully written, incredibly powerful, and says so much about the impact of the prison system on families. A must watch. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In December I raised the issues facing the hospitality industry with Keir Starmer. I’m pleased the Government appears to be u-turning on business rate hikes for pubs but urge the Government to widen this out to the rest of the hospitality industry.

"The way Ed Davey said it was much better" Ed Davey challenges Keir Starmer over Trump at #PMQs

Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.