New figures released by the Environment Agency show that Thames Water discharged sewage into the River Mole a staggering 350 times in 2023. A quarter of these discharges occurred at just one site - at Esher - where the sewage outflow was in operation for three times as many hours as in 2022.
Read MoreThe impact of noise from Heathrow is felt across our community in Elmbridge.
Read MoreLiberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey opened the party’s first ever office in Dominic Raab’s ultra-marginal Surrey constituency.
The Liberal Democrats are under 3,000 votes away from ousting the Conservative Deputy Prime Minister at the next election.
Since the last General Election, the Liberal Democrats have been on a winning streak; gaining a host of council seats in Esher and Walton as well as achieving three historic parliamentary by-election victories in Chesham & Amersham, North Shropshire and Tiverton & Honiton.
Read MoreNow Liz Truss has resigned after trashing the economy, it’s important that we keep holding onto the fact that this isn’t – and shouldn’t be – normal or acceptable. Politics can be exciting - a robust exchange of radical ideas – but it should be dull as anything in constitutional terms. Ours and others’ confidence in how our state and our country functions rests on that. It’s what the markets respond to – and it’s why they’ve gone so wild over the last three weeks.
Read MoreThe Government’s dangerous mini-budget and their mishandling of the basics of sound economic policy is having a very real and immediate impact on hard-working people in our community.
Seventeen thousand households in Esher and Walton have a mortgage - that’s almost 40% of homes. That’s higher than the UK as a whole which is 33%.
Read MoreSurrey Hills, an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, enjoyed by many local Elmbridge families, is at risk from being destroyed by fracking.
Read MoreEsher and Walton is an affluent constituency. Many of our residents will have been the intended beneficiaries of the Government’s devastating, crisis-provoking “mini-Budget” last week. As the Resolution Foundation has reported, almost half (47 per cent) of the gains from the unfunded tax cuts will go to the richest 5 percent of households who disproportionately live in the South.
Read MoreDominic Raab might feel his week has already been challenging, but if the former foreign secretary had followed Monica Harding around his constituency on the morning before his demotion, he could be forgiven for being more downcast still.
Read MoreThe Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservatives of failing to protect local small businesses, after figures revealed that 3,215 businesses in the area have closed over the last three years.
Read MoreDifficult Month Ahead For Esher And Walton Commuters. A month of planned railway strikes through December is an unwelcome early Christmas present for the commuters and residents of Esher and Walton.
Read MoreThe Liberal Democrats have described Boris Johnson as a "lying charlatan", after his LBC interview today in which he once again misled voters and failed to come clean over key issues facing the country. The party has highlighted ten lies and mistruths from Johnson's LBC interview:
Read MoreAt Wednesday’s press conference and Q&A co-facilitated by Esher and Walton Parliamentary candidate Monica Harding, the Conservative peer appealed to voters to place “national interest” above traditional party loyalties. Remaining in the EU would he insisted enable us to, “collectively exercise an influence in the century that is unfolding, way above anything that we as nation states could do on our own”.
Read MoreFarage takes credit for the terrible Tory manifesto
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