'Despite violent and sexual crime being on the rise, Police Scotland has been plagued by a shortage of resources and funding.

The Scottish Government must improve pay, conditions and officer welfare or the service will struggle to attract and retain new recruits.'

Wendy Chamberlain MP

Parties are upping the ante on their Hancock hot takes.

Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael says Hancock would 'rather spend his time gargling pig semen in the jungle than spend another minute on the backbenches'

WATCH: Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference in Hamilton on ITV last night.

We will lift our vote across the country by starting our campaign for the council elections now.

We will grow from the 87 councillors we won in May and return 150 or more in just four years’ time.

Over the last decade, the SNP have delivered huge cuts to local authority budgets and are threatening central government bureaucratic takeovers.

This will take power out of the hands of local authorities and the people who rely on these services.

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'I want to make people aware that no matter what you have you can stand. I aim to ensure people with disabilities are not forgotten.

I want to improve the city’s transport as there are issues. I want to be able to rely on timetables.”

Joe McCauley - Lib Dem 🔶

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The roots of our movement lie in our communities, in public service, and in local government. In May this year, our revival began there too

After those elections an extra 255,000 Scots now have a councillor that will fight for them all year round.

This May, when pundits told us we’d slip backwards, we grew our council base by nearly a third.

We will lift our vote across the country and in each of the coming parliamentary elections by starting our campaign for the 2027 council elections right now.

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Thanks to SallyPattleLibDem for this photo of me summing up the #longcovid motion at #sldconf . So many thoughtful contributions. I am so grateful that Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP🔶🇺🇦 is such a champion for those affected and also Layla Moran 🔶 at Westminster.

Absolutely buzzing after an incredible Scottish Lib Dems conference in Hamilton, my first in person as Leader.

Great to see so many first time delegates and such rich talent among our younger members. Our party is in such good health. #sldconf 🔶🔶🔶

Scottish Conference just endorsed proposals to revolutionize the approach to long Covid.

Even as a record 204,000 Scots suffer from what is undoubtedly a debilitating and life-altering condition, the Scottish Government continue to turn a blind eye.

Motion passed: SC11: Revolutionising Scotland's response to long Covid

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Scottish Conference just endorsed proposals to establish a new two-way Scottish exchange programme.

The SNP's pro-European credentials are in tatters as this lackadaisical attitude to Erasmus shows they are more interested in using Europe for their own benefit.

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Motion passed: SC10: Kickstarting an Erasmus Replacement

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WATCH: Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference in Hamilton on BBC Reporting Scotland last night.

We will lift our vote across the country and in each of the coming parliamentary elections by starting our campaign for the 2027 council elections right here, right now.

ACH: And to you conference, my friends, take heart, move forward with pride, with confidence and with hope, for the best days of our party still lie ahead of us.

ACH: The citadels we’ve built and the gains we made in May mean that nobody is talking about our extinction anymore.

The flames of liberalism and hope are establishing themselves across Scotland once again.

Change is coming. Lift your eyes to the horizon.

ACH: Rejecting independence doesn’t mean settling for the status quo.

By our nature we are the party of reform. For a hundred years and more, in government and out of it, liberals have changed the face of British politics and, by extension, the fabric of our society.

ACH: Market turmoil and sterling collapse are not reasons for independence, they are warnings against it.

Chaos is still chaos whether it comes wrapped in Tory blue, or the acid yellow of the SNP.