This year we honour the women who are paving the way for future generations.

We celebrate Kamala Harris: the first female, first Black and first Asian-American Vice President of the USA. We celebrate Zara Mohammed who just became the first woman to be Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain. We celebrate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and the first African person to head the World Trade Organisation, and we celebrate Prof Sarah Gilbert, the lead professor behind the Oxford coronavirus vaccine.

New government guidance on the pandemic advises both that leafleting and door-knocking by political parties is allowed from Monday 8th March.

For the Liberal Democrats this is a 'call-to-arms' to invigorate our campaigning in key seats from Crewe to Carlisle and from Diggle to Whitehaven ahead of the elections on Thursday 6th May - less than ten weeks from now.

Just like with Black History Month (October) or Disability History Month (which runs from November into December), it's typically filled with events (check ours out here) and discussion. LGBT+ History Month reminds us of the progress we've made, but also warns us about the injustices that we have only recently escaped - and injustices that are still with us.

Millions of people across the country have made untold sacrifices in the past year.

Boris Johnson must not squander the months of sacrifice by millions of people and businesses across the country

People have been isolated from their families, hundreds of thousands of businesses have been shuttered and our precious freedoms have been curtailed.

Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak, asking him to use next month's Budget to increase Carer's Allowance by £20 a week to match the uplift in Universal Credit during the pandemic.

It comes as the Government have announced they will only be increasing the allowance in line with inflation, working out at just an extra 35p a week.