Working with SOFEA (South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance), the Progressive Alliance hopes to set up five more community food larders throughout Milton Keynes. Anyone can be a member of a community larder by paying a small fee. At the larder, members can pick up the food they want. This food is surplus from producers, […]

The new Progressive Alliance of MK Council has its sights on making Milton Keynes the Greenest City in the World. The new progressive Council Plan is due to be approved at Wednesday’s (16th June) Full Council meeting, with details of how the Progressive Alliance plans to deliver on 5 key priorities for Milton Keynes: A […]

Milton Keynes Council’s Progressive Alliance of Labour and the Liberal Democrats has announced their plan for tackling child poverty and supporting children and young people. The Council Plan, due to be approved at a meeting of the Full Council next week [16/06], has 5 key priorities for the Alliance, including fighting child poverty and supporting […]

Milton Keynes Liberal Democrats are set to bring a motion to June’s Full Council to oppose Tory government plans for people to show photo ID in order to vote in general elections. The plans, which were announced in the Queen’s Speech back in May, have been criticised by the Electoral Reform Society, who estimate the […]

Milton Keynes Council has today announced its progressive Council Plan, which sets out how the Council will work to achieve a bold and fair recovery for Milton Keynes from the pandemic. The Progressive Alliance is delivering the priorities of the people of Milton Keynes. Working cross-party, they will use the Plan to deliver progress for […]

Milton Keynes Council has extended its business grant scheme to provide a further £2m to local businesses before the end of June. The Conservative Government’s business support grants have left many local businesses behind and MK Council’s Progressive Alliance is now extending the discretionary support scheme to provide a further £2m to local businesses and […]

Councillor Robin Bradburn, Liberal Democrat Group Leader on Milton Keynes Council, has written to Iain Stewart Conservative MP for Milton Keynes South, urging him not to break his election commitment on international development spending by voting to abandon the UK’s 0.7% of GNI target in a potential vote on 7th June. In the 2019 General […]

Last week, Labour and the Lib Dems united in a Progressive Alliance to run a majority administration, and yesterday the Leader of the Council announced the Cabinet. Labour Councillor Pete Marland remains Leader of the Council. Liberal Democrat Councillor Robin Bradburn is now Deputy Leader of the Council, and Cabinet member for Economy, Recovery and […]

Meet your Liberal Democrat Group on Milton Keynes Council for the year ahead! Councillor Robin Bradburn (Bradwell) – Leader of the Lib Dem Group, Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Economy, Recovery and Renewal. Councillor Jane Carr (Newport Pagnell South) – Deputy Leader of the Lib Dem Group and Cabinet Member for […]

The Liberal Democrats are to become part of the leadership of the Council to lead Milton Keynes through its COVID recovery. The Group believe that Milton Keynes Council must remain forward looking, positive and inclusive, and that there’s one way to achieve this – a unique Progressive Alliance. Councillor Robin Bradburn, Liberal Democrat Group Leader, […]