Thank you to people who wrote to block controversial Freedom of Information bill

We’ve had an amazing response to our campaign to block the controversial Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill to exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information Act – literally hundreds of people locally backed the national Lib Dem online campaign.

All that work has paid off! The Bill has now failed in the Lords after no-one could be found to sponsor it.

More people signed the Liberal Democrat petition against the bill from Winchester than from any other area.

The campaign to defend Freedom of Information had the biggest response to any campaign that we’ve run online. People were understandably furious about MPs seeking to exempt themselves from the Freedom of Information Act.

The MPs who voted for the bill claimed that it was to protect constituents’ privacy, but they provided no evidence and the current law already protects private correspondence.