The Liberal Democrats have today (24th May) announced that their five year plan to give patients in Esher and Walton a legal right to see a GP within a week, or 24-hours if in urgent need, will be in their General Election manifesto.
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Liberal Democrat Candidate for Esher and Walton, Monica Harding responded to the General Election:
"It is time for change. This General Election is long overdue and your ticket for change is voting Liberal Democrat in this General Election”.
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On Wednesday, Conservative MPs voted against a new law which would have seen water companies in court for sewage spills.
Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab, who has taken on two lucrative jobs since the start of this year, wasn’t in Parliament for the debate.
The vote in Parliament took place on the same day a BBC report found sewage had been illegally dumped in the UNESCO protected Lake Windermere in the Lake District.
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New figures released by the Environment Agency show that Thames Water discharged sewage into the River Mole a staggering 350 times in 2023. A quarter of these discharges occurred at just one site - at Esher - where the sewage outflow was in operation for three times as many hours as in 2022.
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The impact of noise from Heathrow is felt across our community in Elmbridge.
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Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey opened the party’s first ever office in Dominic Raab’s ultra-marginal Surrey constituency.
The Liberal Democrats are under 3,000 votes away from ousting the Conservative Deputy Prime Minister at the next election.
Since the last General Election, the Liberal Democrats have been on a winning streak; gaining a host of council seats in Esher and Walton as well as achieving three historic parliamentary by-election victories in Chesham & Amersham, North Shropshire and Tiverton & Honiton.
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Now Liz Truss has resigned after trashing the economy, it’s important that we keep holding onto the fact that this isn’t – and shouldn’t be – normal or acceptable. Politics can be exciting - a robust exchange of radical ideas – but it should be dull as anything in constitutional terms. Ours and others’ confidence in how our state and our country functions rests on that. It’s what the markets respond to – and it’s why they’ve gone so wild over the last three weeks.
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The Government’s dangerous mini-budget and their mishandling of the basics of sound economic policy is having a very real and immediate impact on hard-working people in our community.
Seventeen thousand households in Esher and Walton have a mortgage - that’s almost 40% of homes. That’s higher than the UK as a whole which is 33%.
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Surrey Hills, an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, enjoyed by many local Elmbridge families, is at risk from being destroyed by fracking.
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Esher and Walton is an affluent constituency. Many of our residents will have been the intended beneficiaries of the Government’s devastating, crisis-provoking “mini-Budget” last week. As the Resolution Foundation has reported, almost half (47 per cent) of the gains from the unfunded tax cuts will go to the richest 5 percent of households who disproportionately live in the South.
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Dominic Raab might feel his week has already been challenging, but if the former foreign secretary had followed Monica Harding around his constituency on the morning before his demotion, he could be forgiven for being more downcast still.
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The Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservatives of failing to protect local small businesses, after figures revealed that 3,215 businesses in the area have closed over the last three years.
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