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Prosecute suppliers for excess packaging, say Lib Dems

Selling products in excessive amounts of packaging should be treated as a trading standards issue akin to selling out of date food, the Liberal Democrats said today. Liberal Democrats voted to hand the Trading Standards Office powers to enforce against excess packaging. Delegates at the Lib Dem conference also called for a new national body… Read more »

Lib Dems ‘declare war on inequality’

The Liberal Democrats claim they can lift five million children out of relative poverty by 2020. Delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton approved the party’s poverty and inequality policy paper, which advocates education and employment opportunities with incentives to work and save. Introducing Freedom from Poverty, Opportunity for All, Lib Dem work and… Read more »