Congleton Liberal Democrats

Writing in the Yorkshire Post, Chris Grayling said: "the success of Northern transport depends on the North itself."

It comes after the government dropped pledges to electrify rail routes in Wales, the Midlands and the North, while supporting the £30 billion Crossrail 2 scheme for London.

This is a betrayal of the North and all the areas across the country being neglected under this Conservative government.

The government is trying to dodge responsibility after breaking its promises to upgrade regional rail links.

Chris Grayling may be a South East MP but as Transport Secretary he has a responsibility to look beyond the capital.

The rest of the country deserves better. The government needs to act now to stop the 'Northern Powerhouse' becoming a byword for failure.

The government has released its latest Brexit position paper on the role of the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) after Brexit.

We welcome this sensible and long overdue climbdown by the Prime Minister.

We welcome this sensible and long overdue climbdown by the Prime Minister. It shows Theresa May's red lines are becoming more blurred by the day.

British officials have admitted it will become harder to recover children abducted and taken out of the country by a parent if no Brexit deal is struck with the EU.

The comments come as the Government publishes its latest Brexit negotiating paper on judicial cooperation after Brexit, including proposals to end the direct jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK.

The Liberal Democrats have warned that the government's promise to recruit 5,000 more GPs "lies in tatters," after figures showed the number of GPs remains below that in September 2015.

The pitiful increase we have seen in recent months is nowhere near enough to cope with rising patient demand.

The number of full-time equivalent GPs reached 34,242 in June this year, provisional figures from NHS Digital have shown.

Donald Trump has committed to send more troops to Afghanistan, in a move that was rapidly welcomed by Defence Secretary Michael Fallon. The Government's rapid praise for Trump contrasted with its failure to condemn him in the past.

For once, sense seems to have prevailed in the White House.

But to succeed in Afghanistan will require winning the hearts and minds of its people and working closely with neighbouring countries.

I'm backing George Osborne in the row with Theresa May over HS3. He's accused her advisers of trying to bury the Northern Powerhouse.

Cities like Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool and Hull need to grow and become stronger.

George Osborne

George Osborne is absolutely right to call out the prime minister for starving the North of investment in its railways. It is a priority for the economy of the North of England that it has a good trans-Pennine rail route.

Each Brexit paper the government releases leaves us with more questions than answers. Even Brussels must have had enough of this waffle by now.

Why are ministers hell-bent on ripping up this system and plunging British citizens abroad and EU citizens here into uncertainty?

The government have released their latest Brexit position paper on civil judicial cooperation.

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David Davis is sowing the seeds of more chaos with these short-sighted and short-termist plans.

British businesses are being hung out to dry, with no long-term certainty they'll be able to carry on selling goods freely to the EU. Meanwhile the trade in services that provides the bedrock of the UK economy is being overlooked.

Nothing would provide businesses and consumers with more certainty than staying in the Single Market and Customs Union. That is the option this government should be pursuing if it was serious about protecting jobs and free trade.

Sir Paul Jenkins has called Theresa May's Brexit strategy 'foolish' for hoping to distance the UK from the European Court of Justice whilst maintaining the benefits of the single market.

If the UK is to be part of something close enough to a customs union or the single market to remove the need for hard borders, it will only work if the rules are identical to the EU's own internal rules.

Sir Paul Jenkins