Figures released last week by the Department for Health show a £1.7 million cut to the public health budget in Islington.

Highbury Liberal Democrats have been flooded with complaints from local residents and businesses about the Council’s plans to increase controlled parking hours in the area to 9pm, for seven days a week, and have set up a petition against this here.

The Lib Dems have opposed George Osborne's welfare cuts tonight in parliament. The eight remaining Lib Dem MPs tabled a parliamentary motion calling for the withdrawal of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, singling out the proposed cuts to disability benefits as being particularly unfair.

Islington Liberal Democrats were out in force this weekend, speaking to local residents in Canonbury about the Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act. 

Before the election Liberal Democrats warned that if the Conservatives won a majority they would scrap the Human Rights Act.

Now the Conservatives have set out plans to abolish the Human Rights Act in the first 100 days of this Parliament.

The Human Rights Act protects your basic human rights regardless of your gender, religion or background and ensures that everyone is treated equally and fairly.

On Wednesday I sat in the gallery of the Houses of Parliament, only yards away from Charles Kennedy's former wife Sarah, and their 10 year old son Donald, and listened to Charles Kennedy's contemporaries pay their respects to an exceptional person and in my opinion the best Leader the Lib Dems have ever had.

With so many start-ups and small businesses in Islington, and on our doorstep in Hackney, we’ve got good reason to think carefully about we represent and support entrepreneurs, their businesses and their employees.

Islington Lib Dems have highlighted how Islington's Housing Stock will be devastated by new Tory sell off plans.

Islington Liberal Democrats are celebrating gaining over 100 new members in the last week after a more than 11,000 surge in Lib Dem members nationally to over 56,000. 

Liberal Democrats will guarantee public sector pay increases by at least the rate of inflation.

Nick Clegg said public sector workers deserve to see light at the end of the tunnel after five years of pay restraint and to feel the benefits of economic recovery.

Last week, Julian Gregory, the Liberal Democrat general election candidate for Islington North, attended hustings on housing organised by the Islington Private Renters group and Generation Rent, a housing campaigning organisation.

Julian talked about the housing crisis that is facing Islington, and of the big social changes this is bringing about.  He also put forward some solutions, which include a number of Lib Dem policy proposals.  These are needed both to strengthen the position of renters and to get more homes built, in Islington and across the country. 

You can read what Julian said in his short opening statement below. 

And you can find his story of the housing crisis, including facts from Shelter and details of several policies on housing, by clicking here.