Your Latest Briefing from the Liberal Democrats. |  | The Mid Bedfordshire by-election is on - let’s do this! | After months of shamelessly ignoring her constituents and her duties as an MP, Nadine Dorries finally resigned. The date to replace an absent Tory with an engaged local champion in Emma Holland-Lindsay is now confirmed for 19 October.
That’s less than 5 weeks away!
We have shown that we can win by-elections like this when we all come together and play our part - and this is no different - we need your help right now.
We need you to come to Mid Bedfordshire and campaign for Emma, delivering leaflets and knocking on doors. If you aren’t able to make it in person, we also need people to join our maraphones and donate to our campaign - so there’s a way to help out for everybody.
The next week is crucial, so please make a difference right now. | | | | | | | Emma Holland-Lindsay is the perfect MP for Mid Bedfordshire. Emma grew up in the county and lives there now, and her experience working for a disabled children’s charity and campaigning for the UK’s largest women’s organisation, shows she has the compassion, skills, and experience Mid Bedfordshire and the country needs.
Can you help elect Emma and deliver a blow to this Conservative Government? | | |  | |
- Sarah Dyke MP sworn in
- UK rejoins Horizon
- Ed at PMQs
- Cost of living crisis
| - Education is collapsing under the Tories
- Ed on The Rest is Politics
- In the Media
- Work for Us
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 | Sarah Dyke - our newest MP takes her seat | Following her sensational victory in Somerton & Frome, Sarah Dyke formerly took her seat in Parliament on 4 September.
Sarah is already working harder than the constituency’s previous absent Tory MP, demanding an urgent meeting with the health secretary on her very first day. Indeed, her initial top priorities will be addressing the lack of GPs and dentists in the constituency, as well as tackling river pollution. We can’t wait to see the success she’ll bring to Somerset.
You can watch Sarah being sworn in here: | | | | ⏲️ Watching time: 1 min |  | |
UK rejoins Horizon | The government has finally agreed for the UK to rejoin the Horizon programme, the EU’s flagship scientific research scheme. But the delay has caused ‘unnecessary damage’ to our scientists and researchers, according to Layla Moran MP, the Lib Dem Foreign Affairs spokesperson. Scientists will have already missed out on vital funding opportunities and projects.
Layla called on the government to extend cooperation to other beneficial schemes, such as the Erasmus student exchange programme. | |
 Ed Davey MP at PMQs
With parliament returning from the summer recess, Ed Davey MP used his time at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) to ask when the government would finally meet its 62-day cancer referral target, which it has failed to meet since 2015.
You can watch his question here: | |
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