Empowering and thought-provoking, this intensive training weekend for aspiring female MPs will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to run as a successful candidate.

Many current and former female Lib Dem MPs started their journeys at an FWMP event and you could be next!

The invaluable opportunities, skills and advice you will gain include:

The Windrush scandal has exposed the brutality of the Home Office and the Conservatives more clearly than a multitude of other immigration and asylum scandals.

The reason?

The Windrush Generation are British citizens. People who've lived here for decades - working, raising families, part of Britain.

Even the Daily Mail has been forced to back their case.

Local Matters with Mione Goldspink March 2018

The Planning Inspector who has been examining the District Council's proposed Local Plan has now made her recommendations, and we all have until March29th to make our comments. Go on line to https://www.eastherts.gov.uk/mainmodifications and make your views known.

Local Matters with Mione Goldspink April 2018

We are living in challenging times - internationally, nationally and locally. There are wars, refugees, climate changes and environmental pollution across the globe. Nationally, our Government seems to be so preoccupied with Brexit that it is neglecting many domestic problems. The NHS is at breaking point, there is a serious lack of affordable housing, and our schools are crying out for more funds.

Riding the coattails of an erratic US President is no substitute for a mandate from the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister could and should have recalled Parliament this week and sought the approval of MPs before proceeding.

Liberal Democrats stood ready to assess the evidence and objectives for any action and if it were properly planned and justified, to support a military response.

At this moment our thoughts are with British and allied troops. But the Government's decision fatally undermines the integrity of this mission.

Next month more than 100 local parties are facing council elections. If yours isn't one of them, you can still make a huge difference to the party's overall local election effort - and help us elect more Liberal Democrats in May.

There is a secret phenomenon in British politics.

It is occurring in by-elections all over the country, week in, week out, to local authorities from Sunderland to Somerset. Against the Tories. Against Labour. In Leave areas. In Remain areas.

Since the general election in 2017, the Liberal Democrats are up 15 seats, double Labour's increase of 7, while the Conservatives are tanking - they have lost 18 seats.

I am certain that many Britons are as appalled as I am about the horrific scenes coming out of Syria.

The use of chemical weapons is barbaric. It is a crime against humanity and it is a clear violation of international law.

The Liberal Democrats are an internationalist, outward-looking party - and part of that is being willing to play our part in upholding international law.

As many of us head out for a day of Action to #exitfrombrexit on Saturday 14 April, the following article by Mark Argent (originally posted in Liberal Democrat Voice earlier this month) provides a first hand account of the current mood of voters about Brexit - see:

https://www.libdemvoice.org/brexit-on-the-streets-in-bishops-stortford-57111.html

1. Working to end homelessness being criminalised.

Vagrancy isn't a word we often use in the 21st Century. That's why the law that makes homelessness a crime dates back to the 19th century. Layla Moran MP, our excellent MP for Oxford West and Abingdon has brought forward a bill to repeal this draconian law and stop people being arrested just for not having a roof over their head.