Photos of the 12 Lib Dems elected to Derbyshire Dales District Council in May 2023
Our 12 Derbyshire Dales District Councillors

A Progressive Alliance for Derbyshire Dales District

We are the largest party on the District Council and we lead the Progressive Alliance.

Steve Flitter, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats on DDDC said - We are delighted to come together as 3 progressive Parties to offer the residents and businesses of the Derbyshire Dales a new approach to local politics. We know that our District faces many challenges, not least the cost of living crisis, the shortage of affordable housing for our young families and the threat to our environment from new developments and pollution.

Working together we will support our communities in the best and most effective way, and provide them with genuinely value-for-money services.


Derbyshire Dales News

When is ‘sponging’ acceptable?

Much of the Britain's population fears not having enough money to pay skyrocketing bills - mortgages or rent, food and basic necessities. Yet the former+1 PM, Boris Johnson, apparently has an endless supply of willing donors to keep him and his ever expanding family in the life style to which he wants to be accustomed. He has just been handed another £10,000 worth of accommodation for the month of October, even though he part owns three properties in London! He already earns remarkable amounts of money for the occasional talk, to glorify them with the title 'lecture' implies intellectual rigour and argument. His will be the usual flippant, self congratulatory nonsense that he espoused when PM.

JD
4 Nov 2022
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November is Islamophobia awareness month

November is Islamopbobia Awareness Month and the horrifying petrol bombing at the Manston migration centre, proves that when inflammatory rhetoric is used by politicians and the media, then the result can literally be incendiary. The bomber's Facebook page was filled with hate-filled rants against migrants and Muslims. Politicians must be held to account for their words. They stoke fear and anger that is often misplaced and can be dangerous.

JD
3 Nov 2022
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When anticipated humility became a blame-fest

Suella Braverman approached the Dispatch Box on Monday (October 31st) faced with such a catalogue of complaints laid against her that most politicians would have shown contrition and resigned. But Braverman envelopes herself in a cloak of self esteem and mock humility and derides criticism as the mistakes of others' misunderstanding of her 'alternative facts'.

JD
1 Nov 2022
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UK Lib Dem news

Lady justice - blindfolded and holding the scales of justice
Home Affairs

Improving Access To Justice

Years of Conservative cuts have hollowed out the legal aid system, leaving millions without access to timely legal advice. Our new policy will legal aid a guaranteed right, ensure no one is left without help.

BM
22 Sep 2025
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Photo of a Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protest
International Affairs

Protecting the Rights of Hong Kongers

Hong Kongers living in the UK, and across the world, face an increasingly robust and alarming campaign of transnational repression from Beijing. Our new policy will protect pro-democracy activists and ensure this intimidation has no place in the UK.

LT
22 Sep 2025
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