Dundee Liberal Democrats have welcomed the news that five political parties have signed up to a joint agreement on the need to tackle climate change together. The Liberal Democrats, the Tories, Scottish Nationalists, Plaid Cymru and the DUP have put aside party differences to develop policies on "the most serious threat we face". The Labour Party was invited to join in this campaign, but has so far declined to do so.
Led by Raymond Lawrie, Dundee Liberal Democrat local party convener, Dundee LibDems, including Dundee City Council Group Leader Cllr Fraser Macpherson and local LibDem student representative Iqbal Mohammad, spent today (Saturday 28th January 2006) campaigning in Dunfermline & West Fife for Willie Rennie, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for the by-election taking place on 9th February.
Raymond Lawrie, Dundee Liberal Democrat Local Party Convener, has urged local party members to get involved in the party's leadership election debate.
Dundee City Council's Liberal Democrat Finance Convener, Cllr Fraser Macpherson, has launched an attack on the UK government, accusing it of presiding over the demise of local Post Offices.
Dundee City Council's Liberal Democrat Finance Convener Cllr Fraser Macpherson today called on the Government to give a clear commitment to help and support the 10 900 Dundee people on incapacity benefit. The follows yesterday's new welfare reform proposals were announced by Work & Pensions Secretary of State John Hutton MP.
Cllr Fraser Macpherson, Convener of Dundee City Council's Finance Committee, has expressed his astonishment at the "highly misleading and inaccurate" comments from SNP spokesperson Cllr Joe Fitzpatrick on the subject of Equal Pay and the Single Status Agreement.