Madeleina Kay with members of the new Bassetlaw Liberal Democrats Party at last night’s meeting

Liberal Democrats from across Bassetlaw District have successfully relaunched their local party, which now covers all 25 wards in Bassetlaw.

At the Convening Meeting, held at The Red Hart Inn in Blyth on Monday (13^th November) night, many of the growing number of Lib Dems in our District heard Leon Duveen welcome them to the new Party and their renewed focus on representing the interests of the people of our District.

Leon Duveen, Vice-Chair of East Midland Liberal Democrats & the Chair of the new Bassetlaw Party said, “Liberal Democrat parties across Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire have decided to change from have constituency based local parties to organising ourselves according to Local Authorities.

“Here in Bassetlaw, this means that the old Bassetlaw & Sherwood party is being dissolved and we are convening today as The Bassetlaw Liberal Democrats for all Lib Dems across our District.”

The new Party will officially come into existence on January 1^st 2018

After the formal business has been conducted, the meeting then heard from Madeleina Kay, also known as EU Super Girl, who talked about her activities in the Stop Brexit campaign and sang some of the songs she had written.