Following careful consideration of the latest health advice and risks, the Federal Board has tonight decided to cancel our federal conference this weekend.

It's not a decision that was taken lightly as conference plays a key role in our democratic party as well as being an important training and information exchange event. However, the health of our members and supporters, the staff who work on conference and the wider public is far more important.

Over the last week, Liberal Democrat MPs have been introducing seven Bills that tackle challenges facing women and girls in the UK and beyond.

Today I'm tabling my Bill, which would prohibit anti-abortion protests within 150 metres of abortion clinics:

My Bill will protect all women, all over the country, from harassment and intimidation.

Over 22,000 (yes, twenty-two thousand) submissions have already been made to the party's independent review into the general and European elections. But that's not stopping the review team, headed up by Dorothy Thornhill, from wanting to hear more...

One opportunity to do that in person is at the party's spring conference in York, from 10:10am on Saturday 14 March in the main conference hall.

With reports of sexual assault, rape and violence against women on the rise, it is simply unacceptable that convictions for sexual violence are at a record low.

Tens of thousands of women report crimes to the police each year which are motivated by misogyny, but they are not recorded as such.

Plan International estimate that 66% of girls and young women have been sexually harassed in public.

Making access to support services a right for victims of sexual violence and abuse a right was one of the recommendations of the 2018 APPG on Sexual Violence.

Yet two years on, and throughout the UK survivors are still being told that they have to be added to shamefully long waiting lists, or that waiting lists are closed. The situation is abhorrent.