Yesterday I introduced a bill in Parliament to legalise cannabis for recreational and medicine use.
The evidence is clear - prohibition isn't working.
The war on drugs has been a catastrophic failure, leaving young people vulnerable to dangerous strains of cannabis sold by dealers who have absolutely no interest in their welfare.
The day after Teresa May cancelled the 'meaningful vote' on Brexit even the most supportive newspapers struggled to find anything good to say about her. Here are a few snippets:-
Daily Telegraph "The lady is for turning",
"I have never felt more ashamed to be a Conservative", "Oh, for God's sake, what fresh Brexit hell is this?" ……. "we continue to be led by a mule flogging a dead horse" Allison Pearson
On 10th December 1948, history was made. The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the shadow of the Second World War, the nations of the world came together to declare that everyone - no matter who they are and where they live - has the same fundamental rights.
With one voice, we pledged to "strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance."
Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats were joined in Queen Square by some Labour Party members on Saturday 8th December as part of the People's Vote Campaign.
They spent an hour in the morning speaking to local people about the current state of Brexit and inviting them to answer three questions by placing a coloured sticker on the Brexitometer board. 90 people did so.
For two years the Liberal Democrats have led the fight to give the people the final say on Brexit and the opportunity to Exit from Brexit.
Tuesday's vote is the best chance yet to secure a People's Vote and the Liberal Democrats will be using every opportunity to demand better than Brexit.
The Conservatives have made a mess of Brexit, aided and abetted by the Labour leadership.
To try and sell a plan that would rob us of many vital cross-border crime-fighting tools on the basis of national security takes quite the brass neck.
Consider the European Arrest Warrant. It enables us to bring criminals who've fled our shores back to justice in the UK, as well as to extradite thousands of others to face justice in other European countries.
Parliament found the Conservative Government in contempt over its failure to release their Brexit legal advice
Yesterday, Parliament found the Conservative Government in contempt over its failure to release their Brexit legal advice.
So they are publishing the full advice this morning - and our team of experts are ready to pour over the detail and find out what they were trying to hide.
At our 2018 Spring Conference the Welsh Liberal Democrats followed in the footsteps of our Scottish friends and passed policy calling on Welsh Government to overhaul its guidance on school uniforms to make then more inclusive for trans and non-binary young people.
I am proud to be in a party where members' shape our policy - and can directly make a real difference in peoples' lives.
Today as we mark the international day for persons with disabilities, I am very aware that one billion people around the world live with a disability - that's roughly 15% of the global population. I am one of them, mainly using a wheelchair and sometimes walking with sticks. I could have written something smooth and supportive, but I am angry at having to be an afterthought in our society today.
