Hitchin & Harpenden Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservative Government of “incompetence and chaos” after the Autumn Statement saw tax hikes and cuts to services for people in Hertfordshire.

More than 48,000 patients in our area waited more than two weeks for a GP appointment in September, new research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. This made up 1 in 6 of all GP appointments that month, up from 1 in 10 in January.

Following the Chancellor’s reversal of the mini-budget, Sam Collins Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hitchin & Harpenden has demanded our local Conservative MP “do their patriotic duty” by calling on Liz Truss to resign. 

• Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate Sam Collins slams mini-budget: “Local homeowners have been betrayed by Truss & Kwarteng’s out of touch Conservative Government.”
• Typical family faces a £2,000 rise in mortgage bills following last week’s disastrous budget.

Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hitchin & Harpenden, Sam Collins has called on Bim Afolami to oppose Kwasi Kwarteng’s “shambolic” budget.

Responding to today’s mini-budget announced by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in Parliament, Sam Collins Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for Hitchin & Harpenden said: “The Conservatives have yet again shown just how out of touch they are with people in Hertfordshire. This is not a plan, but a recipe for disaster that will leave local people suffering from soaring prices while banks and oil and gas companies rake in huge profits.

Sam Collins, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hitchin & Harpenden, has called the new Prime Minister Liz Truss a Boris Johnson loyalist, and criticised the new PM for failing to act on the energy crisis, neglecting the NHS and voting for tax rises.

The Liberal Democrats have called for urgent action to improve rail services at both Hitchin and Harpenden stations after new data reveals that they have some of the worst service levels in Britain.

• The Times reports on freezing of income tax threshold bands costing squeezed-middle households

• Sam Collins criticises local Conservative MP for voting to hike taxes 13 TIMES in Parliament

Sam Collins, local Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate, slams Conservative MP for “blowing with the wind” and vows to be an independent-minded MP for Hitchin & Harpenden