Daisy Cooper MP 🔶

Daisy Cooper MP 🔶

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

🗳️ Member of Parliament for St Albans 🔶 Lib Dem Deputy Leader & Treasury Spokesperson 📧 Daisy.Cooper.MP@parliament.uk

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We need a breathing space budget: a Budget that slashes the cost of essential energy, fuel duty and public transport costs, and the high costs hammering hospitality businesses on our high streets.

🧵 Trump’s war - which was cheered on by the Conservatives and Reform - continues to drive up everyday costs, leaving households having to tighten their belts once again. At next week's Budget the Labour government must make good on their promise to give people breathing space.

Our £14 billion emergency package, funded by taxes on unearned profits of big banks and energy operator monopolies, would cut energy, transport, and hospitality costs, putting money back in people's pockets to help with living costs and little extras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

bbc.co.ukInflation and government borrowing hit highest level for a year ahead of next week's Budget - follow liveThe rate of inflation increased - more than expected - to 3.5% in the year to September, says the Office for National Statistics. The Bank of England aims to keep it at 2%.

🧵 Our @libdems.org.uk plans would put £350 back in your pocket. The government should deliver a breathing space Budget next week, to slash your energy bills, petrol and public transport prices, and costs for struggling high street hospitality businesses over the next year and a half.

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🧵 Our @libdems.org.uk plans would put £350 back in your pocket. The government should deliver a breathing space Budget next week, to slash your energy bills, petrol and public transport prices, and costs for struggling high street hospitality businesses over the next year and a half.

How would we do that? ✅️ An Essential Energy Guarantee to slash bills, with extra support for the most vulnerable ✅️ A 10p fuel duty cut to drop petrol prices and public transport fares ✅️ A 5p cut to hospitality VAT

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Everyone should be able to enjoy life’s little pleasures, not just scrape by. Our Breathing Space Budget would save households £350 on average, cutting the cost of energy, travel and going out. It’s time to give families the breathing space they deserve.

ITV’s undercover report exposing racist and misogynistic comments by Reform UK councillors will be aired in full tonight. According to Reform sources it’s just a “few bad apples” but we’ve been here before….

🧵 Growth of just 0.1% is nothing to celebrate. The economy is stuck in first gear and barely crawling forward, while families are still struggling to make ends meet. This doom loop of low growth is fuelling the cost of living crisis.

The Chancellor must be bold at the Budget and adopt our @libdems.org.uk plan to Get Britain Growing Again. This means pulling the biggest growth lever available, a new growth and defence partnership with Europe, and tearing down the barriers holding British business back.

We Lib Dems are the last line of defence against a Reform UK government, and Ed is determined to lead a strong and united party into the next GE whenever it comes. The vast majority of our MPs support Ed, want him to lead the party into the next GE and are furious at this distraction.

🧵 The Conservatives' rejection of closer ties with Europe has cemented their position as a pointless anti-growth anti-business party. Our @libdems.org.uk plan to Get Britain Growing Again will turbo-charge our economy, starting with a new Growth and Defence Partnership with Europe.

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The motion passed at Green Party Conf' actively undermines a 2-state solution, and does not address the rising threats of Islamophobia and Antisemitism here in the UK. This is a divisive motion that pours fuel on the fire of tensions in the UK, and will leave many British Jews feeling less safe.

Business Day at our Liberal Democrats Conference was a huge success. We had representatives of businesses right across the country sharing their stories and ideas - and I was delighted to present my new plan for how we get Britain growing again.

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Britain feels broken because it is being held back. People feel powerless, and they can't hold the powerful to account. Liberal Democrats want to change our politics so that, together, we can fix our country.

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This is a fight for the future of our country. For liberty, equality and community. For the values we hold dear. This is the fight of our lives. And we are going to win it.

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Raising the tax-free personal allowance. Trusting people to spend their own money, not telling them the state knows best. Real money, £680 a year, back in people’s pockets.

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Liberal Democrats took more than 3 million people out of paying income tax with the personal allowance. 

So we will raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000. Taking 2 million more people out of paying tax altogether, and giving most taxpayers a £680 tax cut.

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The cost of living is hitting people hard. For years, millions of people put up with Conservative incompetence because they hoped their tax bill might go down. Now, people have been left high and dry by a Labour government continuing the same tax-and-spend doom loop. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

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A brilliant start to the Lib Dem Party Conference in Brighton! Serving up fresh fish and chips to our fantastic local party activists and supporters. Ready for a great week ahead by the coast.

High streets are being hammered by a broken bricks and mortar tax. The government's business rates review doesn't go far enough. Labour must stick to their pledge and overhaul this broken system entirely, to save our high streets.

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Farage has always behaved as though the rules apply to everyone but him. These allegations against Reform look like the latest example. Lib Dem Cabinet Office spokesperson @lisasmartmp.bsky.social has written to the police and the electoral commission asking them to investigate.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack: