Sarah Teather

As many of you know I used to have a blog here called ‘Sarah Teather is My MP’. But it looks like soon (2015) Sarah is to stand down from Parliament and will no longer be my MP. The former Children’s Minister told the Observer that she feels Nick Clegg’s party no longer campaigns sufficiently for social justice and liberal values on immigration. In a statement on her website, she said that her differences with the party “have been getting larger rather than smaller”....

Brent’s LibDem MP Sarah Teather has been appointed Minister of State for Children and Families at the Department of Education by David Cameron. Sarah will work under the new education secretary Michael Gove who had immediately renamed this department from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). Top. Priority. A surprise appointment? Others had suggested housing…. A quick search shows that Sarah has taken an interest in this area in the past - she has asked around 50 questions of (what was) the DCSF and taken an interest in education issues within other Departments....

Public sector newswires with insufficient to talk about have been waiting for news on who the new Housing minister would be, with Grant Shapps and Sarah Teather the most likely candidates. Housing is an issue Sarah has spoken about often in the Commons.

The voters of Brent have returned Lib Dem Sarah Teather with a majority of 1,345, a swing of 11% from Labour, and Labour’s Barry Gardiner with a majority of 8,028, loosing 2.5% of the vote to the Conservatives (+2.2%) and other parties. I was at the count on Thursday night tally marking for the Lib Dems and in-between boxes of ballot papers talking with candidates and journalists about the political economy of Brent as a borough....

WBTimes report that “Floella Benjamin ditched the teddy bear props” when she joined Lib Dem candidate for Brent Central, Sarah Teather this week. Floella joined Sarah on Harlesden High Street to collect signatures in Harlesden, to sign up residents to a petition urging the government to reform air passenger duty. Air Passenger Duty (APD) is an excise duty which is charged on the carriage of passengers flying from a United Kingdom airport....