Barnet
Finchley Church End By-Election
James Goldman has been chosen to be the Lib Dem candidate in the Finchley Church End by-election.
JG
17 Feb 2025
Around London
Lib Dem News from across London
The Liberal Democrats are campaigning across our city. Here are some of the most recent news from our London teams.
Barnet
Barnet Borough
In memoriam: Gerry FitzGerald
Our former local party Chair, Gerry FitzGerald, recently passed away. We pay tribute to a much-loved and longstanding party member who gave much and asked for little.
17 Jul 2023
Brent
Borough Of Brent
Standing United Against Racism and Xenophobia in Brent
Paul Lorber, the Liberal Democrat leader, has written to the Conservative leader to withdraw their full council motion attacking refugees, and instead is suggesting the council adopts our own: "Standing United Against Racism and Xenophobia in Brent".
PL
by Paul Lorber
7 Sep 2025
Explainer: Controlled Parking Zones in Alperton
When we are out talking to residents or reading your emails — concerns around over-parking are one of the most common complaints.
CC
31 Jul 2025
Lib Dems tell Labour to Stop Messing Up Brent
A Lib Dem Motion at the Council Meeting in July 2025 challenges Brent Council to start tackling the public concern about the dirty state of Brent streets and public spaces.
CC
29 Jun 2025
Bromley
Proposal to build 350 houses in St Mary Cray on Green Belt Land
Land Improvement Holdings are consulting with local residents about a proposal to build 350 houses in St Mary Cray. The proposals are at an early stage – they have not yet submitted a formal planning application.
12 May 2025
Sale of Freehold of Churchill Theatre
Following last year’s announcement of their intention to sell the Churchill Theatre site, Bromley Council has now issued a public notice to confirm the sale in accordance with the terms of the covenant that gifted the site to the people of Bromley in 1879
13 Apr 2025
Bromley Conservatives vote against making Borough more Age-Friendly
Conservative councillors have voted against a Liberal Democrat proposal to work towards making Bromley an Age Friendly Community – a move slammed by the Lib Dems as showing a lack of care and concern for the borough’s older population.
9 Apr 2025
Camden
Camden
Why West Hampstead By-Election Candidate Janet Grauberg is Standing
West Hampstead Liberal Democrat by-election candidate, Janet Grauberg, explains why she is standing to be a Councillor.
CLD
22 Aug 2025
Camden
Camden Threatened by Labour’s Funding Cuts
A devastating new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies reveals that inner London boroughs stand to suffer real‑terms funding reductions of up to 12% under the Labour government’s proposed local authority funding overhaul.
CLD
18 Aug 2025
Camden
Camden Lib Dems Back Petition to Save Police Front Counters
Camden Liberal Democrats are backing a petition to stop the closure of police front counters across London.
CLD
18 Aug 2025
Croydon
Croydon
Upper Norwood resident recognised by Croydon Council with a prestigious community award.
Veryan Wilkie-Jones is a volunteer with the Friends of Upper Norwood Rec community group which hosts activities and volunteer days to maintain the well-loved green space. The Rec will celebrate its 135th anniversary in June this year.
CLD
12 May 2025
Croydon
Councillor calls for action on empty flats in Upper Norwood
A local councillor is calling for action from Croydon Council after a block of flats in Upper Norwood was left empty following a fire last summer.
CLD
27 Jan 2025
Croydon
Nando's submit planning application for the Crystal Palace Triangle
A planning application for a Nando's restaurant in the Crystal Palace Triangle has been submitted to Croydon Council.
CLD
7 Feb 2025
Ealing
Ealing
Liberal Democrats challenge Labour over poor housing delivery
Ealing Liberal Democrats dismayed at the poor handling of housing crisis.
22 Oct 2025
Ealing
Lib Dems helping support residents who are sick and tired of dirty streets
Filthy streets covered in leaves, detritus and litter are creating a shabby environment.
1 Oct 2025
Ealing
Labour fails meeting its own targets for providing a clean Ealing exposed by Liberal Democrats
Ealing Lib Dems say that Ealing Labour is presiding over poor delivery and broken promises.
24 Sep 2025
Enfield
Our Manifesto for Enfield 2022
Today, the Enfield Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto ahead of the 2022 Enfield Local Council Elections, entitled Change Enfield Together.
14 Apr 2022
Greenwich
One Year On from the 2024 General Election
Liberal Democrats make a difference in Parliament and Greenwich Borough
5 Jul 2025
Shooters Hill By-election Update
While we didn’t win this time, we are encouraged by the appetite for change on the doorstep.
29 Jun 2025
Lib Dem campaigners speaking to residents
It’s been a busy few months for Greenwich Borough Lib Dem campaigners.
21 Apr 2025
Hackney
1,879 Thank Yous
Lib Dem Simon de Deney congratulates Mayor-elect Caroline Woodley and thanks Hackney voters for their support
10 Nov 2023
Election 2023: A Manifesto to Shake it Up!
Lib Dem candidate, Simon de Deney launches his manifesto, promising bold action on Housing, Green Spaces and stronger Local Democracy.
11 Oct 2023
Simon de Deney for Hackney Mayor
Stoke Newington resident, writer and actor, Simon de Deney is the Liberal Democrat candidate for the vacant Hackney mayoralty in the by-election on November 9th.
5 Oct 2023
Hammersmith and Fulham
Planning
Lib Dem London Assembly Candidate Backs Calls To Protect Shepherd's Bush Market
Christophe Noblet calls on next Mayor to reject redevelopment that threatens historic market.
19 Apr 2024
Health
Lib Dems demand action with urgent Charing Cross Hospital repairs still delayed
Decision to not complete the refurbishment of Charing Cross Hospital until after 2030 is "awful" - Blaise Baquiche
25 Jan 2024
Policing
Local London Assembly Candidate CHRISTOPHE NOBLET vows to restore proper Community Policing
West Central London Assembly Candidate Christophe Noblet has hit out at years of short-sighted cuts and neglect that has left Fulham without a single operational police station.
25 Jan 2024
Haringey
Lib Dems oppose police counter closure
Haringey Liberal Democrats have written to the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime to oppose Sadiq Khan’s move to close Haringey’s last public facing police counter.
HLD
1 Aug 2025
Haringey is England’s ‘most rotten’ borough
New data from the Local Government Ombudsman has shown Haringey Council topping the charts for most complaints upheld per head of population: leading to the council being dubbed England’s ‘most rotten’ borough.
HLD
23 Jul 2025
Haringey declares No Confidence in Thames Water
Following a Liberal Democrat motion, Haringey Council has unanimously declared no confidence in Thames Water. It also committed the council to requesting that the government place Thames Water into special administration.
HLD
22 Jul 2025
Harrow
Harrow
Met Police launch Met Engage
Met Engage is a new platform for the Met Police to engage with communities.
HLD
30 Jul 2025
Harrow
Closure of Northwick Park Hydrotherapy Pool
Harrow LibDems contact hospital and support the petition to stop its closure.
HLD
26 Jul 2025
Harrow
Summer BBQ
Celebrating success at our Summer BBQ with Olly Glover MP
26 Jul 2025
Havering
Hillingdon
Hillingdon
Badenoch plans to cut state pension will send "shiver down the spine" of pensioners across Hillingdon
After being hammered by years of the Conservatives’ economic vandalism and the new government’s decision to cut the Winter Fuel Payment, this support is needed now more than ever.
1 Feb 2025
Hillingdon
Liberal Democrats want to see a better Heathrow, not a bigger one
The building of Heathrow's third runway would have significant environmental, social and economic impacts across west London.
29 Jan 2025
Hillingdon
Eleventh Hour Reprieve for Beck Theatre
The Beck Theatre has a new operator who will take over its operation when the current contract with Trafalgar ends
TC
18 Dec 2024
Hounslow
Islington
Operator found for Mount Pleasant Post Office
The Clerkenwell Liberal Democrats have welcomed the announcement that the Mount Pleasant Post Office has been saved, with a new operator secured to take over the vital community service.
28 May 2025
Delight as Upper Street Post Office Saved From Closure
Islington Liberal Democrats have welcomed the announcement that the Upper Street Post Office has been saved, with a new operator secured to take over the vital community service.
28 May 2025
PRESS RELEASE: Islington Lib Dems demand Emily Thornberry votes against disability benefits cuts, as rebellion brews
Our recent press release demands that, as rebellion brews, Emily Thornberry must vote against cuts to disability benefits.
25 May 2025
Kensington and Chelsea
Planning
Campaign update - Silvertime application withdrawn!
The application for a new 24/7 gambling shop on Earl's Court Road has been withdrawn
30 Jan 2025
Transport
End the e-bike chaos!
The Conservative-run council in Kensington & Chelsea must do more to end the scourge of inappropriately parked e-bikes on our streets.
15 Jan 2025
Kensington and Chelsea
Save Kensington High Street and Worlds End post offices!
Kensington High Street and Worlds End post offices are at risk of closure. Sign our petition to save our local post offices.
19 Nov 2024
Kingston
Building a new leisure centre for Kingston
Liberal Democrat councillors have successfully ringfenced £44 million for building our new leisure centre. Although construction...
KLD
8 Mar 2023
Ed Davey's Christmas card competition
🎅🎄Ed Davey MP was pleased to award the winners of his Christmas card competition, which had the theme of "a Royal Christmas". Ed...
KLD
22 Dec 2022
By-election in Green Lane & St James ward - Results
Green Lane & St James ward by-election (10 Nov 2022) Sadly, our brilliant candidate, Mahmood Rafiq, was not elected this time....
KLD
11 Nov 2022
Lambeth
Lambeth Lib Dems Raise Urgent Concerns as Streatham Police Teams Move Out Amid Rising ASB
Lambeth Lib Democrats have expressed deep concern over the decision to relocate the Streatham Wells and Streatham Common & Vale Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNTs) from their base at 326-328 Streatham High Road to Gipsy Hill Police Station in Crystal Palace
26 Sep 2025
ALL FOUR LAMBETH LABOUR MPs VOTE AGAINST EXPANDING FREE DISABLED BUS TRAVEL
Labour MPs in Lambeth voted against a Liberal Democrat move to expand free bus travel for disabled people in a parliamentary debate on 10 September 2025.
BA
16 Sep 2025
HOUSING OMBUDSMAN EXPOSES YEARS OF NEGLECT BY LAMBETH
The Lambeth Liberal Democrats have condemned Lambeth Labour’s shocking neglect of local residents after the Housing Ombudsman named the London Borough of Lambeth among the worst offenders in a new report on severe maladministration in housing repairs.
BA
14 Aug 2025
Lewisham
Lewisham Council has failed to control fly-tipping…. this is how the Liberal Democrats would fix it
Lewisham had 92 items of recorded fly-tipping per 1000 people in our borough, making it us the 4th from bottom for fly-tipping of the 32 London Boroughs.
24 Jun 2025
Mike Martin MP speaks to Lewisham Lib Dems about international affairs
Mike Martin, MP for Tunbridge Wells and member of the Defence Select Committee, gave a talk to Lewisham Liberal Democrats about defence and foreign policy.
16 Jun 2025
The continuing saga of Lewisham Council’s neglect of Catford
It is hard not to notice the high number of empty shops now in Catford. And sadly back in October the much-valued Catford Mews closed, after being repossessed by its landlord.
7 Mar 2025
Merton
Labour housing boss refuses to resign following housing failures
At last night's Council meeting, Merton Liberal Democrats slammed Labour’s Housing Cabinet Member for a ‘trilogy of failures’
18 Sep 2025
Council Push Morden Regeneration Back to 2041: Lib Dems Demand Change
Merton Lib Dems have slammed Merton’s Labour Council for extending the timetable for Morden Town Centre regeneration again, pushing back the project to the 2040s - doing so beneath the radar without any formal announcement.
17 Sep 2025
Wimbledon MP Paul Kohler calls for more local policing & rebuilding trust, in letter to Sir Mark Rowley
In a letter to Sir Mark Rowley, responding to the Met’s consultation on its policing plan for the next 3 years, Paul Kohler MP called for a stronger local police presence, greater visibility, and rebuilding community trust
17 Sep 2025
Newham, Barking and Dagenham
Redbridge
Software Update!
Redbridge has upgraded its email and website software, apologies for the lack of content whilst the team familiarise themselves...
17 Jan 2023
Southwark
Southwark Liberal Democrats raise alarm after Council staff passwords leaked on dark web
Southwark Liberal Democrats have demanded urgent answers from Southwark Council after it was revealed in The Independent that the passwords of 42 Southwark Council staff have been found on the dark web.
17 Oct 2025
Liberal Democrats offer cross-party work to oppose Labour's council funding cuts
Southwark Liberal Democrats have drafted a letter, which they are proposing to send jointly from the Liberal Democrat and Labour groups to oppose the Labour Government's local council funding cuts.
16 Oct 2025
Walworth police front counter to no longer be open 24/7, breaking Labour manifesto pledge
Last night (15th October), it was announced that there will only be 2 police front counters left open 24/7 across London, confirming that Walworth’s police front counter – the only one in Southwark – will have its hours reduced.
16 Oct 2025
Sutton
Sutton
Lib Dems lead the opposition to mandatory digital ID cards
Lib Dem Bobby Dean MP is raising concerns over the Government’s proposed introduction of mandatory digital ID cards, highlighting the risk to long-held civil liberties and the right to privacy.
3 Oct 2025
Bobby Dean
What does an MP do over summer recess?
Parliament has been in summer recess, which means less time in Westminster and more time out and about in Carshalton and Wallington, speaking with people and listening to your views.
BD
19 Sep 2025
Bobby Dean
Bobby backs local business and calls to axe “jobs tax”
Local businesses are facing increasing pressures from rising costs and the government’s decision to increase employer National Insurance contributions, branded as a “jobs tax”.
16 Sep 2025
Tower Hamlets
D3 Bus Saved!
Thank you so much to all who signed our petition to save the D3 bus route. Over a thousand of you signed the petition, which was successful in gaining local media coverage and which the local Liberal Democrats presented to the London Assembly in September.
4 Dec 2022
Twickenham and Richmond
Fight to Save the Royal Parks Police
Richmond Park and Bushy Park's shared policing unit may be scrapped, the MET has announced.
10 Feb 2025
Tribute To Serge Lourie
Serge Lourie dedicated much of his life to public service and bettering the lives of those around him.
23 Sep 2024
Sarah Olney and Munira Wilson launch their campaigns in Richmond Park and Twickenham
Twickenham & Richmond Liberal Democrats kick off their General Election Campaign.
31 May 2024
Waltham Forest
Older People Hit Hardest
Liberal Democrats have slammed Labour-run Waltham Forest Council for cuts to a scheme that provided home-visits to isolated older people.
5 May 2025
Action in the Community
On the 11th of March Lib Dem activist Joe Dyer received a call for help from a homeless man at the Leyton Leisure Centre with nowhere else to go.
21 Apr 2025
Lights Out on Francis Road
Your Grove Green Liberal Democrat team has reported these broken street lights on Francis Road for repair.
11 Jun 2025
Wandsworth
Putney
Crime and policing in Southfields: Survey
If you live in Southfields, we'd like to hear from you! Do you think crime and anti-social behaviour are a big problem or not?...
7 Dec 2024
Community
Hundreds gather to celebrate 100 years since construction of London’s first ever Mosque in Southfields
We were honoured to be invited to attend the 100th anniversary of this cultural landmark
4 Nov 2024
AELTC
Wimbledon tennis expansion plans approved – despite ongoing concerns
London's Deputy Mayor has approved AELTC expansion but questions over use of land continue
2 Nov 2024
Westminster
833 children in Central and Northwest London are on waiting lists for specialised dental care
833 children in Central and Northwest London are stuck on NHS waiting lists for specialised dental care, including some with severe tooth decay or other serious dental problems, shocking new figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats have revealed.
19 Jul 2023
Hospitals in Westminster and City of London lose 4,175 bed days to social care backlogs
New research published by the Liberal Democrats has revealed the impact of the social care crisis on the NHS in Westminster and City of London, with medically fit patients left stuck in hospital beds waiting for care.
6 Jul 2023
MP Nickie Aiken refuses to back bill to stop puppy smuggling and pet theft
MP Nickie Aiken refused to back a bill to end puppy smuggling, pet theft and live animal exports in the UK. On 21 June 2023, the opposition attempted to force the government to bring back the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill.
22 Jun 2023