Come and see democracy in action! Woking Lib Dem Executive meetings are open to all Lib Dem Members, and are where we formulate our plans for the future, please do join us, 7.30pm, Friday 22nd Sept, The Maybury Centre, Board School Road, Woking GU21 5HD

Lib Dem Quiz'z are light, entertaining evenings for all Lib Dem supporters. feel free to bring friends and family or just turn up on your own. Teams will be made up on the day so gives you a chance to meet other members and supporters even if you turn up alone.

Cost just £10 including Supper at St Mark's Church,

We need a bold new approach to improving mental health focused on prevention, including giving discounts to business rates for companies that take concrete steps to improve well-being in the workplace.

We also need a pay rise for NHS staff and demanded that Theresa May give EU nationals working in the NHS the right to stay now.

Today at #LDConf we have called for the setting up of a tough new watchdog to protect the environment from threats posed by Brexit.

In a conference motion we called for the creation of an Office for Environmental Responsibility that would ensure laws on air quality or the cleanliness of beaches are properly enforced.

Theresa May must use her speech next week in Florence to change course and unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU nationals, to prevent a 'Brexodus' of thousands of nurses and teachers working in Britain's schools and hospitals.

In a conference motion passed today, we demanded that the government urgently publish a review into the impact its Brexit policies are having on staffing shortfalls in public services.

The Bank of England's nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee voted today by 7-2 to keep interest rates on hold at 0.25%, amid sluggish growth and a squeeze on household spending.

However, the nine policymakers then stated that "some withdrawal of monetary stimulus was likely to be appropriate over the coming months."

Vince Cable makes a major speech warning of the dangers of inequality arguing that if the problems we face today are not addressed then our country risks tearing itself apart.

Speaking to the Resolution Foundation he will warn that "growing inequality is linked to poor economic performance, greater economic instability, more social tension, insecurity and unhappiness." He will also argue that generational inequality is increasingly proving as much of a challenge as class-based inequality. He will warn that "a serious review is needed of the set of taxes which are there to mitigate the sharp, jarring difference brought about by asset inflation and unearned income. We must tax wealth effectively."

The Liberal Democrats have launched a petition to save the Surrey Performing Arts Library which is under threat of closure by Surrey County Council. Surrey residents have reacted with dismay on hearing of the threatened closure and that the County Council's consultation exercise will give residents just two weeks to respond.