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                        Lib Dem bid to fix care and end council funding crisis
                         
                10/06/2024 The Lib Dems have pledged multi-year settlements and a cross-party solution for social care to help end councils’ current funding crisis in their manifesto today.  | 
            
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                        Government criticised over free school meals threshold freeze
                         
                14/05/2024 The Liberal Democrats have criticised the Government for failing to increase the income threshold for free school meals in line with inflation.  | 
            
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                        Lib Dems pledge to scrap business rates
                         
                09/04/2024 The Liberal Democrats would deliver tax reforms to ‘revive struggling high streets’, leader Ed Davey will announce today.  | 
            
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                        Planning proposals will 'disempower' councils
                         
                28/09/2020 The Lib Dems have used their autumn conference to warn that the Government’s planning proposals will ‘disempower’ councils.  | 
            
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                        LGA split over worker bonus
                         
                26/05/2020 A cross-party agreement that the Local Government Association (LGA) would lobby for a coronavirus payment to staff was ditched after senior councillors blocked the move, The MJ can reveal.  | 
            
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                        Lib Dems unveil plans to tackle homelessness
                         
                28/11/2019 The Liberal Democrats have set out a raft of plans to end rough sleeping if they won the General Election.  |