Today is the day you could kick to Tories out of the Police and vote for a Lib Dem voice supporting our hard working officers and focusing on evidence-led policing that actually reduces crime. Polls open from now until 10pm

Yeah the Independent Oxford Alliance seems like a great bunch of... Oh!

👮🗳️It is exactly two weeks until the election in which the people of the Thames Valley will decide who sets the direction of the police over the next four years. Here is why I am standing...

Peaceful evening in Broad Street

Yesterday I asked the Oxon Tory Group Leader to explain why someone he had (rightly) suspended for retweeting a Britain First tweet had then been allowed to join the Conservative & Independent Alliance group.

He chose to not answer the question.

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Fantastic canvassing session across North Oxford all day with the brilliant LibDem team. Hugely warm welcome for our hard-working councillors and candidates and of course the wonderful ⁦Layla Moran 🔶🕊️⁩

Scott Urban 🔸 Unless you live in Thame? There seems to be absolutely no urgency over a safe link between the town and its station

Southbound closure of A34 between Pear Tree and Hinksey Hill this weekend, from Friday evening to Monday morning. Diversion round the eastern ring road

Labour in utter disarray on transport policy. They voted to undermine safe streets and the policies that are bringing new bus routes and electric buses to our streets. Only the LibDem/Green County will deliver a better future. It is happening now. oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24195884.…

As usual, the Tories fail to make the connection between reducing congestion and improving public transport. Traffic filters mean improved amenity for all, better buses, less congestion, safer roads, cleaner air, and more space for alternative uses. oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24188131.…

Bicester and Woodstock MP candidate slams Jeremy Hunt budget | Oxford Mail oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24170230.…

This is welcome news oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24140436.…

Proud to be supporting a county council budget that boosts Children's Services and Adult Social Care across Oxfordshire.

Despite the massive cost pressures and government under-funding, it is a balanced budget too.

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Labour cllrs “support ANPR”: other Labour cllrs say the opposite. They voted for the E Oxford scheme then voted to tear part of it out. Labour hypocrisy and inconsistency is staggering. Only the LibDem/Greens are taking this vital issue seriously oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24125519.…

London borough of Croydon to make most of its LTNs permanent. Council (which is now Tory-run) cites evidence of road safety benefits, air quality benefits, and better conditions for vulnerable road users democracy.croydon.gov.uk/documents/s540…

Great coverage of Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ 's debate on Thames Water's lamentable performance in Parliament this morning.

(And great work by the team for all the work to make it happen.)

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Tory papers were briefed that Transport Sec Mark Harper “stripped funding from car-free zones”. In fact, funding “excluded LTNs because no bid matched funding criteria [not] because ministers blocked [them]”. So Mr Harper wasn’t telling the truth, then? localgov.co.uk/Ministers-did-…

And it won’t reinstate the bankers bonus cap, or close a loophole which allows private equity investors to pay 28% CGT rather than higher rate tax. And what about council funding for potholes and social care? As you say, James, what’s the point of Labour?