As Labour heads towards a manifesto for the next General Election we have been working with our wider network, and those who’ve signed up to the CPTNetwork, (that's kindly supported by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust) to bring together our contribution to the National Policy Forum process. In response to the framing of the NPF Commissions, we…
Samantha Niblett, Vice-Chair (Membership) of Erewash CLP and Founder of Labour Women in Tech I don’t always agree with the Country Land and Business Association but it has a point when it says that rural areas are 19% less productive and could generate £43bn more for the UK's economy if it was levelled up. We…
Cllr Polly Billington, Endorsed by Labour Coast & Country for South Thanet As a child, one of our family New Year traditions was to pile into the car and drive out of South London to the coast and eat fish and chips - in the freezing cold, bright, sharp, sunlight of an English seaside town.…
Jessica Toale is a Councillor in Westminster and the Co-Chair of the Labour Foreign Policy Group The UK is blessed with some of the world’s best beaches – even if we don’t always have the weather to match. In the summers, thousands of people flock to places like Bournemouth and Boscombe to enjoy the pristine…
Report from National Association of Local Councils Conference 2022 Jonathan Wallcroft is a Town Councillor in Keynsham; and LCC’s Field Organiser for the CPTNetwork. I had the pleasure of attending NALC’S conference on November 7th. Unfortunately the conference was online rather than in person, but in its own Zoomy way perhaps it painted a more…
Alex Mayer is an LCC supporter and member of the NPF for the Eastern Region This week saw the first full meeting of the new National Policy Forum in a zoom meeting chaired by Ann Black from the NEC. There were 127 representatives on the call from right across the country, from regions, trade unions,…
Kerry Booth is the Chief Executive Designate for the Rural Services Network. The Rural Services Network, a membership organisation representing English rural councils and other rural services providers has recently published research into the rural cost of living crisis. This shows that higher domestic and transport energy poverty, coupled with lower wages, pushes rural areas into…
While we wait, with some trepidation, for this week’s imminent announcements from a government without mandate, conference in Liverpool gives all the Labour family an opportunity to show it is the bedrock of a government in waiting, ready to meet the nation’s needs in this dark hour. For our part we will continue to promote…
Chris Hinchcliff is a Labour Councillor on North Hertforshire district council and works for CPRE. Across England, roughly 24 million people live in rural communities, or in urbanareas with a significant rural hinterland that plays a crucial part in their identity anddaily lives. With a Tory government resolutely determined not to rise to thechallenges facing…
There is a by election happening in Tiverton and Honiton so political pundits have been busy googling the place, and many in the Labour Party have been gearing up to fight a “rural” election. After all the big thing the constituency is famous for thanks to its dodgy MP is sexy tractors. So bring out the…
