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[Lib Dems for Basic Income @LDforBI]

The pandemic has shown that our welfare system is not fit for purpose.

We're calling on all Lib Dem council candidates to pledge their support for Basic Income trials. ✍️

UBI could be #OurGenerationsNHS 🙋‍♀️🔶

The pledge: https://t.co/W9lBNnqi3P

[The Liberal Beacon @BeaconLiberal]

Starmer’s brexit strategy (sit on the fence and hope the Tories screw it up) will be put under the spotlight here. Lib Dems have very little hope here but could pick up votes from liberal Labour voters.

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

Mike Hill (Labour, Hartlepool) has resigned as a Member of Parliament.

[Luisa Porritt @LuisaPorritt]

I look away for five minutes and he's insulted Londoners again 🤦🏻‍♀️

Why is someone who holds Londoners in such low regard even running to be Mayor of our great city?

London deserves a serious challenger to Sadiq Khan with a plan for the future. I'm ready.
https://t.co/Veee8I7LWl

[Lib Dems for Basic Income @LDforBI]

👀WATCH THIS SPACE 👀

We have a HUGE announcement coming out in the next few days as the campaign for the May Elections begin. Follow us for updates in the coming days. #LDforBI

[Jack @WorrallJack]

Hot take coming in - Tuition fees aren’t a barrier to entering university.

The lack of maintenance loans and the abolish of maintenance grants are.

We should focus on upping loans and restoring the grants.

[Lib Dems for Basic Income @LDforBI]

You haven’t heard from us in a while but in the new year we will back campaigning for a Universal Basic Income to become a core part of our parties future.

To our followers, we can’t do this without you so see you in the new year - spread the word.

#LDforBI

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Even at this late stage the PM has the opportunity to do a good deal with our EU colleagues that will protect British jobs and our communities. If he fails, whilst we are in the worst recession for centuries - it will be an unforgivable calamity.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

I asked @BorisJohnson if he can ensure that anyone visiting family members over Christmas can get tested beforehand, to prevent them endangering their loved ones.

His answer was clear as mud.

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

Watch this, and then imagine that George had admitted any of this before the referendum... Here he basically shrugs at the destruction of sheep farming, the inevitability of food price rises and farm profitability being wiped out. In six weeks time...

[Jamie Stone MP @Jamie4North]

Bi den 👋

[The Liberal Beacon @BeaconLiberal]

Lib Dems in Portsmouth have committed to stepping where the government refuses. Bravo @geraldvjuk!

[Portsmouth Lib Dems 🔶️ @portsmouthld]

Council Leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson today committed Portsmouth City Council to support school children through the school holidays after the government refuses to make sure children do not go hungry.

https://t.co/NsTA1FvThd

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Pleased to have Boris Johnson agree to look into the rules that prevent family members managing the finances of severely disabled people - people like Mikey, a disabled 18 year old saving for a specialist tricycle, who's unable to access his Child Trust Fund savings. #PMQs

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

If Ministers really care about the NHS, they need to care about care.

The cross-party talks – long promised by Boris Johnson – can’t wait any longer.

The Covid crisis makes the need to fix social care more urgent, not less.

[The Liberal Beacon @BeaconLiberal]

. @BorisJohnson better get those ballet shoes ready. You’re going to need them.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Coronavirus: 'Liberal Democrats absolutely back a circuit breaker' says party leader https://t.co/ffNiS4gtfR

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

David Cameron’s team won today, he’s just not sure whether they beat Leicester or Liverpool...

[The Liberal Beacon @BeaconLiberal]

Priti Patel has just given the most evil speech since Enoch Powell. Whatever it takes, we must defeat the Tories in 2024. Labour-Lib Dem make it happen!

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Ed Davey: I cared for my late mother as a child, now I'm a carer for my son - I want to be the voice of millions like me https://t.co/G2Tt7voKMr

[Mathew Hulbert 🔶️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 ✝️ @MathewHulbert]

We #LibDems can, at one and the same time, be proudly pro European and wanting to see the closest possible relationship between the UK and the EU, whilst also recognising that the people voted to leave the EU and an immediate or short term rejoin policy would clearly be wrong.