After meeting with local farmers from across her constituency, Layla Moran, Lib Dem MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, has echoed calls to urgently fix the labour crisis in farming. Farmers from across Oxfordshire highlighted the impact shortages of staff are having on harvesting crops and keeping livestock.

Layla Moran is backing the #FoodOnPlates campaign to stop millions of tonnes of fresh, unsold food from being wasted when it could instead go to charities and community groups feeding families. 

Layla Moran has set out a Liberal vision for ending rough sleeping in a debate she led yesterday in the House of Commons’ Westminster Hall, calling for an approach that restores trust between rough sleepers and government, councils, and services. 

Layla said that the Everyone In scheme, which saw rough sleepers put into emergency accommodation during the pandemic, “was a phenomenal response to an international health crisis”, but that on its own “it is not a sustainable response to a national rough sleeping crisis.”

Layla Moran, voted against Boris Johnson’s social care tax plan last night, saying it “will hit low earners and the young the hardest” and that the social care crisis needs to be fixed “in a fair and progressive way.”

The changes, which go against the Conservatives’ manifesto promise not to raise taxes, will mean hard-pressed local families and small businesses will be left paying hundreds of pounds more in tax each year.  Liberal Democrat MPs voted against the government plans, arguing that they fail to fix the ongoing social care crisis and will fall disproportionately on the young, the low-paid, and small businesses.

Layla Moran, Lib Dem MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, yesterday afternoon signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, organised by the Stop the Arc group, urging him to “act decisively” and rethink his planning reforms, as well as looking again at the Oxford-Cambridge Arc proposals.

Layla Moran MP has said extra money must be granted to councils to provide vital services to help refugees settle. Layla said "Oxford is proud of its role as a “city of sanctuary”, but years of slashed council funding will limit the abilities of councils to offer education, housing, mental health and language provision to help refugees settle in the UK".

Earlier today, Layla Moran MP, Tobias Ellwood MP and Sarah Champion MP urgently wrote to Dominic Raab urging the UK Government to reverse its decision to not give visas to Chevening scholars still in Afghanistan. The text of the letter is below:

Following the sentencing of Tong Ying-kit under Hong Kong's National Security Law, Lib Dem Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Layla Moran has written to Dominic Raab urging the UK Government to step up.

Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs and International Development spokesperson, has marked the United Nations’ World Day against Trafficking in Persons. Around the globe, the pandemic has increased the number of people being trafficked domestically, including children. We have to work across political divides and across borders to put a stop to this injustice.

Layla Moran and Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats have launched a new petition calling on the Government to introduce a Covid Recovery Visa for the hospitality sector. Launching the petition, Layla Moran MP, who has previously called for the visa’s introduction during Prime Minister’s Questions, said that the hospitality industry “has been hit by a triple whammy” of Brexit, the points-based immigration system, and the Government’s handling of the pandemic.