This article was written by Liberal Democrat MP, Sarah Teather for today’s Daily Telegraph: The Government’s decision to increase Air Passenger Duty will have a negative impact on Caribbean economies and will do little for the environment. A storm is brewing over the fabulously blue skies of the Caribbean. With thousands of British people making their way to [...]
“We are still almost a third down on this time last year,” said the Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat Shadow Housing Minister. Commenting on today’s Council of Mortgage Lenders figures, which shows lending massively down on last year despite a month-on-month rise, Sarah Teather said: “These figures show that talk of a recovery in the housing market is [...]
From The Daily Mail : The CML said it expects around 48,000 people will be repossessed this year, the highest number of evictions for 14 years. The Tories slammed the Government's flagship repossession prevention policy, the Mortgage Rescue Scheme, for helping a paltry number of homeowners. Since its launch in January, just 92 families have been helped despite nearly 11,000 approaches by desperate...
“No Government programme has ever been as inappropriately named as the Mortgage Rescue Scheme,” said Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Housing Minister. Commenting on today’s Council of Mortgage Lenders figures on repossessions, which show 11,700 people had their homes repossessed in the three months to September, Sarah Teather said: “Ministers have spent billions of...
Chancellor Alistair Darling is facing a rebellion over proposed cuts in housing benefit for low-income families. Mr Darling wants to end a scheme that allows thousands of claimants on average,to keep up to £15 a week if they negotiate a cheaper rent deal with landlords. As a result of the scheme tenants are on average £8 a week better off, [...]
So starts Nick Clegg’s comments in the latest Channel 4 Political Slot film from the party, featuring himself and Sarah Teather talking about changing our political system: You may find the opening contains an electoral statistic which sounds rather familiar. I wonder if this post will make it to national TV next…
Crisis, the charity for homeless people, launches a campaign tomorrow to resist unpopular plans by the government to ask housing benefit claimants to pay back up to £15 a week they are allowed to keep if they negotiate cheap housing deals. Some 300,000 people currently are allowed to keep the difference if their accommodation costs are less than the limit set by their local authority, to incentivise...
The government is quietly making a change to local housing allowance rules that will only line the pockets of landlords Imagine being out of work and getting by on £64.30 a week. It's not easy, but you can survive, just. You can forgo luxuries; cut down on basics; live in the cheapest parts of town. With some forward planning and some imagination, you can make every penny pull its weight. Now...
The battle for Brent is most definitely on, as Labour’s Dawn Butler and the Lib Dems Sarah Teather both seek to highlight injustices towards the Caribbean visitors to Britain
SW1A’s shortest elected representative used to boost her four feet and ten inches with heeled court shoes and boots. For the new parliamentary session, however, Scrapbook’s fashion correspondent reports that the MP for Brent East* has now switched to wearing flats, sparking fevered speculation along the corridors of power Cowley Street as to the possible implications for Liberal Democrat...
Gordon Brown made a decent fist of contrition when he told his party last year how badly stung he had been by the 10p tax affair. A year on from that half-apology, the government is on course to dock the weekly budgets of families even poorer than the 10p losers – and to sting them for more than twice as much. Worse still, from Labour's perspective, is the fact that the pain is due just a few...
Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather has stepped up the pressure on the government to rethink the unfair Caribbean passenger tax. Joined by popular broadcaster Floella Benjamin, as well as representatives of leading Caribbean organisations, Sarah handed in a petition to Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Brent’s Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather has stepped up the pressure on the government to rethink the unfair Caribbean passenger tax. Joined by popular broadcaster Floella Benjamin, as well as representatives of leading Caribbean organisations, Sarah handed in a petition to Chancellor of the Exchequer including almost 400 signatures from Brent. The Labour government plan to tax [...]
Remember Dawn Butler? She's a Labour MP who seems to specialise in making an arse of herself. For those with short memories click HERE , HERE and HERE . And she's at it again this week, accusing the BBC of racism because they haven't invited her to appear on Question Time . Her reason? Her opponent at the next election, the "hideously white" Sarah Teather has been invited on three times this...
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