Environment and Waste
Clean Tyne motion success
Lib Dem motion for a Clean Tyne after plastic and sewage spills passed
8 Oct 2026
Gateshead Liberal Democrats
Demand Better For Gateshead!
Welcome to the Gateshead Liberal Democrats website. Our team of Councillors represent wards across Gateshead, and our members actively work for residents across the borough.
Our website includes information to help you get involved in community issues and access useful services such as reporting fly-tipping and responding to planning applications. You will also find contact details for each Councillor and updates about what we are doing for you!
Get in touch if you need help with an issue, have an idea to improve Gateshead, or want to get involved. We are always delighted to meet with residents.
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A Lib Dem Council would empower residents to have a real say over issues that matter. In the meantime we speak up for people who all too often feel let down. Gateshead charges the highest levels of Council Tax for band D properties of any metropolitan borough in the country but residents feel that it is out of touch and unresponsive. That has to change!
Councillor Ron Beadle
Gateshead Focus
Gateshead
Lib Dem response to ASI Enterprise Zone proposal
Lib Dems: Yes to defence investment and high-value jobs, but Gateshead needs a business case, not a press release
18 Aug 2026
Gateshead
Liberal Democrat response to BNP candidate expulsion from Reform
Liberal Democrat response to BNP candidate expulsion from Reform Councillor Ron Beadle, Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition on Gateshead Council, has responded to Reform’s expulsion of their candidate for Saltwell.
23 Apr 2026
Gateshead
Gateshead flyover closure commemorated with birthday cake as Lib Dems urge demolition work to push on
Gateshead flyover closure commemorated with birthday cake as Lib Dems urge demolition work to push on
13 Dec 2025
Gateshead
FOCUS 185 - Autumn Ward Updates
Liberal Democrats Focus Team - working for you, all year round
1 Nov 2025
Gateshead
GOOD NEWS - Post Office returns!
The reopening of the unit has been welcomed by your local Lib Dem Focus Team - Jonathan Mohammed, Marilynn Ord and Jonathan Wallace.
1 Nov 2025
National Focus
Latest UK News
The Fight of our Lives
Ed Davey's Leaders' Speech to Autumn Conference Speech 2026
ED
by Ed Davey
22 Sep 2026
Cost of living
Cutting income tax to tackle the cost-of-living crisis
The Liberal Democrats will take 2.5 million people out of paying income tax altogether by raising the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000.
22 Sep 2026
Farming & Food
Feeding Britain: A Food Security Emergency
The Liberal Democrats are standing up for British farmers, protecting our countryside, and taking decisive action to secure affordable, locally grown food for generations to come.
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22 Sep 2026