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Mar 13 5 tweets 2 min read
But we can’t stop there.

Because, as all parents know, the impact of Covid on our children goes far beyond the learning they have lost.

We worry about the effect this pandemic has had on their emotional development too. Their mental health and wellbeing.

@EdwardJDavey #LDConf
@EdwardJDavey For every five children who need mental health treatment, three of them are unable to access it.

And some have to travel hundreds of miles to get it.

We wouldn’t tolerate it for children's physical health, and we mustn’t tolerate it for their mental health either.
@EdwardJDavey That is a profound failure – not just by the Conservative Government in Westminster, but also the Nationalists in Scotland and Labour in Wales.

They are neglecting our children on an industrial scale.

As part of our fair deal, we need to change that.
@EdwardJDavey We must expand access to mental health treatment for children and young people.

With new maximum waiting times, to build on the first ever targets for mental health introduced by Norman Lamb. And by recruiting and training more psychiatrists to deliver them.
@EdwardJDavey And, crucially, we should put a dedicated, qualified mental health professional in every school.

So every child and every parent has someone they can turn to for help.

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Mar 13
The fair deal we are fighting for:

Ending the scandal of thousands of patients every week stuck for hours in the back of an ambulance, waiting to get into A&E.

Protecting our environment by banning raw sewage from being dumped into our rivers.

@EdwardJDavey at #LDConf
@EdwardJDavey Taking real action on the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis.

Helping small businesses to recover from the pandemic.

Making our communities safe by tackling the rise in crime.

Welcoming refugees with care and compassion.

Restoring trust and decency to our politics.
@EdwardJDavey Our vision of a fair deal is certainly an ambitious one.

But I make no apologies for being ambitious.

Our great country and the great British people deserve nothing less.

@EdwardJDavey at #LDConf
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Mar 13
Nowhere is that fair deal more important than in education.

When you’re a parent, and you pour that amount of love and devotion into your kids.

You deserve to know that the Government will do its bit for them too.

@EdwardJDavey at #LDConf
@EdwardJDavey You should know that they are walking into a building that’s been well-maintained.

That their teacher has the time and resources to give every child in the class proper attention.

And that they will leave with the grades they need and the hope and opportunities they deserve.
@EdwardJDavey We cannot underestimate the damage that’s been done to that promise over the last two years.

That’s why we're calling for a Children’s Catch Up Fund of at least £15 billion.

With Catch-Up Vouchers to spend how parents see fit. So parents can choose the best for their child.
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Mar 13
Rishi Sunak has wasted more of our money than any Chancellor in history – and now wants us to pay for it in unfair tax rises.

@EdwardJDavey at #LDConf
@EdwardJDavey This Chancellor is failing millions of people hit so hard by the cost-of-living crisis.

He could have asked the fossil fuel giants – raking in super profits – to do their bit.

A windfall tax, to raise the cash to cut people’s energy bills now. But no. Not this Chancellor. Image
@EdwardJDavey Just look at what Rishi’s doing with taxes.

A big tax cut for the banks. A big tax rise for you.

And such unfair tax rises - costing every family six hundred pounds a year.

A new jobs tax that will hurt business and workers alike.
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Mar 13
Being taken for granted was what caused the people of Buckinghamshire to rise up in their thousands and vote for Sarah Green last summer.

It’s what caused the people of Shropshire to rise up and vote for Helen Morgan in December.

@EdwardJDavey at #LDConf
@EdwardJDavey We will all miss our dear friend, Erlend Watson.

A true Liberal, whose infectious energy, encyclopaedic mind and big heart are legendary.

But it is at least fitting that the final by-election of Erlend’s life was a historic Lib Dem gain.

@EdwardJDavey at #LDConf
@EdwardJDavey The people of North Shropshire showed they won’t be taken for granted any more.

And they have shown the rest of the country what you get when you vote Liberal Democrat: A real local champion, who will work hard for her constituency and fight for a fair deal for local people.
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Mar 13
The lawbreaking and lies of this Prime Minister are matched only by the cowardice and complicity of Conservative MPs.

They ducked their responsibility to kick Boris Johnson out of Downing Street. They chose to keep as Prime Minister a man who broke his own laws.

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With a few honourable exceptions, Conservative MPs now all subscribe to Boris Johnson's new conservative philosophy:

Truth doesn’t matter.

Laws are for other people.

Rules don’t apply to them.
And what angers everyone, whatever their views – what really sticks in the craw – is that these Tory MPs think they can get away with it.

The Conservatives think they can take you for fools, just as they take your votes for granted.

But they won’t get away with it.
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