Fighting for fair funding to fix our roads.

The Lib Dems are fighting for fair funding to fix our roads. 

Having inherited an £800m backlog from the Conservatives, every year the Lib Dem County Council faces a £27m funding shortfall between what government gives and what is required to maintain our roads.

Liberal Democrats are stepping up and filling that gap with record investment. Investment that Conservative, Reform and Labour councillors refused to support at this year’s budget meeting. 

If these 3 parties got their way, there would be even less money to fix potholes in our city.

Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate for Cambridge Cheney Payne and our county’s 3 Liberal Democrat MPs have called on the government to give Cambridgeshire extra money as our roads are more vulnerable to potholes than other counties.

Cheney Payne says, “Cambridge’s roads are crumbling and we need the funding promised by the government to fix potholes. Instead, local Labour councillors are proposing budgets that would have meant less money for our roads and more potholes.

Cleaning up our streets and tackling anti-social behaviour.

The Lib Dems opposed Labour’s cuts to street cleaning. They will make cleaning up our city a top priority if they win in May.

The Lib Dems have also called for the reversal of Labour’s public toilet closures.

They put forward an amendment to this year's budget that would reverse some of Labour's cuts, partially funded by reversing the payrise Labour gave to their own leader. Sadly, Labour rejected the plans but the Lib Dems will keep fighting.

The Lib Dems have also led the campaign against crime and anti-social behaviour in our city. They have called for noise cameras to tackle noisy road racers, put forward proposals to tackle anti-social e-bike and e-scooter use and backed the national Lib Dems' “Operation Bike Bait” campaign. This is a plan to create a dedicated bike team at the National Crime Agency focused on bike theft, who would have the power and resources to do more sting operations to capture the criminal gangs stealing and reselling our bikes.

Vote Lib Dem this May to back the team who want to clean up our city's streets.

Standing up for our city, its values and our local environment

The Lib Dems are opposing the divisive politics of Nigel Farage and standing up for Cambridge’s values.

Labour’s failure in government and strong swing to the right is risking giving Nigel Farage the keys to 10 Downing Street - and letting our country become like Trump's America. Instead of standing up to Farage, Keir Starmer is increasingly copying him.

Thankfully, where Labour are failing, the Liberal Democrats are taking on Reform - and winning. The Lib Dems have the best record of any party at beating Reform in council by-elections - winning more last year than any other party.

The Lib Dems have done this while:

• Fighting for our place in Europe by campaigning for a UK-EU customs union and rejoining the single market.
• Opposing Reform UK and the Labour government's unfair and divisive policies on immigration.
• Standing up to Donald Trump on the genocide in Gaza and his aggression to Greenland and Canada.

If you vote Lib Dem this May, you will not only be voting for the party that is beating Reform. You will also send a message to Labour that they need to stop copying Reform and start standing up to them instead.

The Lib Dems also oppose Labour's plan to take local people's voice away on the future of our growing city by taking away planning powers from elected representatives to Whitehall bureaucrats. Our local councils have a good record of delivering housing with the buy-in of local communities. Taking away these powers will only weaken local democracy and make it harder for our city to grow in a sustainable way.

Building good homes and facilities for our local communities

The Lib Dems want to deliver, sustainably and affordably, new homes for our local community.  We have a housing market tilted to sellers and landlords and this impacts both existing residents and people coming to work here – particularly young people. 

The Lib Dems will also campaign for central government funding to invest in infrastructure to allow these new homes to be built - water, energy, community facilities, GP surgeries and schools.

They will bid for funding to build new social housing - and take action to tackle the issues with repairs, damp and mould in the councils existing property.

Action on the Cost of Living Crisis

The cost of living crisis continues to hit people right across Cambridge. Trump’s chaotic war in the Middle East, opposed by Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats, is making things worse by driving up energy bills and petrol prices. 

The Liberal Democrats are calling for action to tackle the cost of living crisis. 

They want to reduce energy bills, save holiday meal vouchers, rebuild our trading relationship with Europe and want fairer taxes on small businesses so our economy can grow again and we can all have more money each month in our bank accounts.

If you want to find out more about our plans or are struggling yourself with the cost of living visit our dedicated page.

Protecting our environment

The Lib Dems are leading the fight to protect Cambridge's local environment and tackle climate change.

Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate for Cambridge, Cheney Payne, has been leading the campaign to save the locks on the River Cam. Cheney and the Lib Dems have also been calling for action on sewage dumping and are working with Lib Dem MP for South Cambridgeshire to protect our precious chalk streams.

They are also campaigning to protect and improve our local green & open spaces. Nationally, the Lib Dems have been consistent campaigners for action on climate change, delivering increased investment in renewable energy when in government