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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶

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🔶 Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Skye, West Ross-shire Proud Highlander Contact me and my team by emailing [email protected] Sign up for my newsletter here: https://www.highlandlibdems.org.uk/angus-macdonald-candidate/contact

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · Jul 4

I was so honoured when one year ago today, voters put their faith in me to be their local champion. Since then I have been fighting for you, and being the strong voice that the Highlands deserves.

Thank you very much for entrusting me to represent you in Westminster, I’m giving it my all.

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Alison Bennett @alisonebennett.bsky.social · 12h

With support from Lib Dem colleagues, I've urged the Health Secretary to urgently address the hospice care crisis.

We can't accept a diminishing service where care is rationed and fundraising lags.

Thousands need relief, and we must do better.

300 beds lie empty, while people have to be turned away. Inpatient units are closing. We face the threat of 1/2 of children’s hospices cutting their end-of-life care or scrapping it altogether if funding is not urgently guaranteed. Hospices relieve pressure on our NHS and offer extraordinary dignity and comfort for people. Yet just ⅓ of their income comes, on average, from our NHS. Many receive substantially less because each hospice must plead for funding from their local ICB, with no national recognition of their value. Hospices suffered real cuts under the last government, and now a massive NICs raid under this one. 40% of hospices are planning cuts this year with more to come. There have been hundreds of jobs lost. Care at home services have been cut, inpatient units closed, and beds shuttered. We are calling on you to:
• End the postcode lottery of hospice care by allocating funding by demand so
that areas that struggle to attract charitable funding are properly supported

• Protect children’s hospices by maintaining their ringfenced funding and following the recommendations for annual uplifts.
• Exempting hospices from increases in Employer NICs.
• Tackle understaffing through a dedicated hospice workforce plan to cut vacancy rates.
• Support bereaved families by working with hospices to improve access to counselling and therapy for anyone needing support from the point of a loved one’s diagnosis.
• Properly integrate hospices with our NHS including by embedding palliative care specialists in every hospital emergency department so people can be redirected towards care in the community. We also urge you to add End of Life Care advice as a call option on the 111
service.
We cannot accept a Cinderella service, where dwindling hospice care is rationed and
charitable fundraising falls further and further behind what is needed. Thousands of
sick and dying people are crying out for relief. They deserve a system fit for the 21st
century.
Yours sincerely,

Alison Bennett Lib Dem Care and Carers Spokesperson
Sir Ed Davey- Leader of the Lib Dems
Daisy Cooper MP - Deputy Leader of the Lib Dems
Helen Morgan MP - Lib Dem Health and Social Care Spokesperson
Helen Maguire MP - Lib Dem Primary Care and Cancer Spokesperson
Danny Chambers MP - Lib Dem Mental Health Spokesperson
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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 14h

New health and safety regulations mean that the Portree helipad and hundreds more will not be available for search and rescue helicopters - risking the health of people needing medical evacuation.

I have met with the Coastguard, Bristow, and the CAA and hope that a resolution can be found quickly.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 16h

Elon Musk is stoking far-right extremism on our streets.

The Prime Minister should order a security assessment of the threat Musk poses to our democracy.

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

#PMQs

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Scottish Liberal Democrats @scotlibdems.org.uk · 16h

Liberal Democrats are winning again.

The Holyrood election in May is an opportunity for change with fairness at its heart.

Because Scotland deserves better - and with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, you can vote for it.

In constituencies right across the country, the Lib Dems are poised to beat the SNP.

Right across the Highlands we’re going to see big Lib Dem gains and in Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Edinburgh Northern, Argyll and Bute and other parts of the country we’re very close to beating the SNP.

- Alex Cole-Hamilton

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 1d

A real Russian Shahed drone being put together in Parliament today. It’s 4m long and can carry 90kg of explosives. Russia manufactures 170 a day and most get directed onto civilian Ukrainian targets. Russia must lose this war for the sake of peace in Europe.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1d

The hospice sector is in crisis. Families are terrified for their loved ones, yet the government continues to look away.

Our new campaign demands urgent action to fix this broken system.

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 2d

The Highlands has very high level of suicide rates and mental health problems.

If you have a friend or family member that you worry about, contact Ewen’s Room, Lochaber Hope or Mikeysline.

NHS Highland need to improve their mental health provision dramatically.

Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 5d

No one should be stuck in the awful position of waiting months on end for mental health services.

It's time to supercharge mental health care in this country.

Our Plan to Super Charge mental health services:
-Mental health MOTs at key life points
-A dedicated practitioner in every school
-Full parity between mental and physical health care
-Walk in hubs for children and young people
-Triple taxes on harmful social media giants

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The Highland Council @highland.gov.uk · 8d

👏🎉Congratulations to Muirtown Primary School, Inverness which has been honoured with the Fairtrade Foundation’s ‘Campaigner of the Month’ award, recognising their outstanding commitment to celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight and championing trade justice for farmers and workers around the world.

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 13d

Doh! Im LibDem

Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve no intention of having a back and forth on this. Go to the pub, I’m sure a lot of people would have a view.

Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 14d

Some thoughts from the road - the remote Highlands is in a demographic struggle

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Scottish Liberal Democrats @scotlibdems.org.uk · 15d

No matter where you are in Scotland, you can elect a Liberal Democrat MSP on the peach-coloured regional ballot next year.

Every vote for the Scottish Liberal Democrats on that ballot will deliver change with fairness at its heart.

Liberal Democrats are winning again.

The Holyrood election in May is an opportunity for change with fairness at its heart.

Because Scotland deserves better - and with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, you can vote for it.

- Alex Cole-Hamilton

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Scottish Liberal Democrats @scotlibdems.org.uk · 15d

34 million people use the NHS app in England, but in Scotland we still don't have one.

Why, in 2025, are patients in Scotland still unable to benefit from an App that provides the same joined-up care that families in England have been able to rely on since before the pandemic?

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mcsfoundation.bsky.social @mcsfoundation.bsky.social · 23d

Great to meet Angus MacDonald MP at #LDConf and learning about the impact reducing #ElectricityPrices would have on his constituency. Thanks for visiting, Angus!

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 16d

Mikeysline does an amazing job helping those in crisis in the North of Scotland. It was a pleasure to meet some incredible volunteers today.

Whatever you’re going through, you can contact Mikeysline here oursupport.mikeysline.co.uk or call Samaritans for free any time, from any phone, on 116 123.

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 16d

Reminder of my three surgeries tomorrow - Gairloch, Lochcarron, and Kyle

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 19d

As many of you know, social care in the Highlands is a major concern of mine.

Read my article in the Lochaber Times today about what I think needs to change - and why I'm hosting a conference with Kate Forbes to try and push the issue.

www.westcoasttoday.co.uk/opinion/spea...

Speaker's corner: Angus MacDonald MP - Care home concerns need to be addressed

"The Deputy First Minister and I are co-hosting a care summit in late October in Fort William, bringing together an outstanding collection of authorities on the subject."

www.westcoasttoday.co.uk

Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 21d

I'll be in Gairloch, Lochcarron and Kyle on the 30th September doing surgeries.

Any concerns or questions, please do come along. Email [email protected] to book a slot.

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 26d

[email protected] has been a carer for his mum, his nanna & now his son. As he says, most care isn’t in care homes but in our homes, given by families. We’re a nation of carers — but govt rarely sees it that way.

Read his foreword to our new report: www.ippr.org/articles/who...

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 29d

"What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. And the President of the United States, who wants a Nobel Peace Prize, is doing nothing to stop it."

@EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 28d

Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding.

He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · 29d

Not before time it is is being recognised that genocide is being committed in Gaza. Shame on Trump for still proving arms and support to Israel.

I wonder if this will be raised by Starmer to Trump in his visit? I’ll bet not.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jeremy Bowen: UN genocide report a blunt indictment of Israel's actions in Gaza

A new report accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, in

www.bbc.co.uk

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · Sep 15

Great to meet campaigners at today’s #SEND rally in Parliament Square.

Although this is a devolved issue, I’m proud to support Liberal Democrats in their call for urgent and genuine reform so every child with SEND gets the support they need.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · Sep 15

"If you hold to those liberal beliefs which actually have made our country great, I think that's true patriotism."

@EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk

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Angus MacDonald MP 🔶 @angusmacdonaldld.bsky.social · Sep 15

I was delighted to attend the old tradition of ‘Kirking of the Council’ in Inverness on Sunday. There was a great procession led by the pipe band, hundreds of school children, military cadets, and various dignitaries