Liberal Democrats have reacted angrily to news that ministers are defending in the High Court on Thursday their decision not to release a crucial clean air plan for the UK to tackle illegal levels of air pollution.

Ed Davey, Lib Dem former cabinet minister for Energy and Climate Change, has said the government is reportedly blocking release of its report into air pollution because it is worried the “shaming” findings would become a major election issue.

Lib Dem Baroness Olly Grender is calling on the Government to ban letting agents levying fees on tenants in England.

Caroline Pidgeon AM, Liberal Democrat London Assembly member, has called on London's Mayor to "pull the plug" on the Garden Bridge project following a report by Dame Margaret Hodge.

A London MP has slammed the government for not being open with residents that a third runway at Heathrow could mean just 6 or 4 hours a day respite from aircraft noise.

Alarming new figures from the Met Police have revealed that the number of children carrying knives in London schools has doubled in five years.

Caroline Pidgeon, Liberal Democrat Londonwide Assembly Member, commenting on today’s announcement that Cressida Dick has been appointed as the next Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police Service and the Met’s very first woman Commissioner said: “The Metropolitan Police was founded by Robert Peel who declared 188 years ago that the police are the public and the public are the police. Today it feels as if that principle is finally being put into practice with the capital at long last having a woman Commissioner.”

Liberal Democrat membership in London has nearly doubled since the EU referendum. We now have the most London members that we have ever had this century. 

Tube delays caused by overcrowding have soared in the last five years, new figures obtained by Caroline Pidgeon, Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member have revealed.