• As inflation soars to 9%, last night Conservative MPs in Parliament voted against a tax on the record profits of oil firms
  
  
• Local Liberal Democrat candidate calls for tax cuts and energy bill support to help families in Sutton through cost of living crisis

• Local Liberal Democrats demand Sutton's Conservative MPs votes against Boris Johnson over partygate fines
  
  
• Liberal Democrat Leader calls on Conservative MPs “to do their patriotic duty”

Sutton Liberal Democrats have called on local Conservative MPs Paul Scully and Elliot Colburn to boot out Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak following the revelation that both are to be fined over lockdown-breaking parties at Number 10.

• Typical family in Sutton set to pay an extra £194 in national insurance contributions (NICs) this year as cost of living crunch hits.
• Local businesses are also set to feel the squeeze with £24,664,416 tax hit.
• Lib Dems demand emergency VAT tax cut to put money back in the pockets of struggling families.

The Liberal Democrats have slammed the Spring Statement as a "massive missed opportunity" to help families in Sutton.

• Liberal Democrat proposals to take new action against water companies dumping sewage in rivers blocked by Sutton's Conservative MPs
• New “name and shame” law would have led to annual figures on animals killed by sewage dumps 

Sutton Council has voted to allocate £98,000 of funding to protect the Roundshaw Downs from nuisance motorbikes riding on the fields.

The latest stats from NHS England, published in January, reveal that 38,912 patients in Sutton are waiting to start treatment. 

Nearly 20,000 “squeezed middle” families in Sutton won’t receive any help with soaring energy bills, analysis by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.

The Labour Mayor and Conservative government have already scrapped a number of schemes in our borough to save money – now plans to improve our local bus services could be next.