Policy
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Cornwall: Beyond the Postcard
Perran Moon, MP for Camborne, Redruth & Hayle Cornwall is a land of extraordinary beauty, rich heritage, and proud communities. As the Member of Parliament for Camborne, Redruth and Hayle, I’m often struck by how much easier it is to persuade Ministers to visit during the summer months as they often reminisce about childhood holidays…
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Deputy Leadership candidates answer C&C questions
Thanks to positive engagement from both Deputy Leader campaign teams please see their responses to our Coast & Country questions; we hope that helps you decide how you will vote; and will give us a Deputy Leader we can work with to continue Labour’s presence and representation of communities of Coast & of Country. Bridget’s…
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Fair Funding for Rural Areas
Kerry Booth, Chief Executive of Rural Services Network Public services are the backbone of this country, quietly carrying on in the background, making sure that our bins our emptied, our children can get to school, and our most vulnerable are cared for. At the Rural Services Network we believe that every council should have the…
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Bridging the Rural Services Gap
Graham Biggs MBE, FCG, Chairman of Directors for Rural England CIC This summer, Rural England CIC published its latest State of Rural Services report, providing an up-to-date picture of life in rural England. My role gives me a front-row seat to the realities faced by rural communities, and the findings of this report confirm much…
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Lessons from New Labour – Labour’s appeal to rural voters
Neil Ward, Labour:Coast&Country Steering Group The 2024 General Election proved (again) that Labour could win previously safe Tory seats in rural areas. Labour hold almost 50 of the most rural constituencies and almost twice as many County Constituencies (those containing some rural territory) as the Tories. Capturing so many rural seats shows how Labour can…
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Majorities, made on the coast and in the country
Hywel Lloyd, LCC Co-founder We hope you’ve all had time for family, friends and yourselves this summer break; and perhaps, like us, that’s given you time to refresh and reframe. Philip Collins’ “Memo to Keir Starmer: the three things to remember before you give the speech of a lifetime” in the Observer gives us a…
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Securing our Community Assets
Emma Foody MP *The Assets of Community Value (Sports Facilities) Bill – Second Reading due on 11th July In towns and villages across the country, vital sporting facilities have slowly disappeared. Hundreds of swimming pools, leisure centres and sports clubs have shut their doors, meaning people – especially those living in rural areas – have…
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The run into May 2026 …. Winning the Slo-Mo rural general election
Hywel Lloyd, Co-founder Over the past year we have highlighted that much of the elections in 2025 and 2026 amount to a Slo-Mo rural general election. Now we have the results from May 2025 there is, as ever, an opportunity for learning. With learning and improvement being key elements of a mission-based approach, we hope the government…
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Labour’s offer to communities of the Country
The LCC team Communities of the Country may not have always been seen to be electorally important to Labour, yet without some support from these communities, without some reflection of their needs and concerns, and their futures, Labour will neither win where it could, given so many of these issues are reflections of those we…
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Labour’s offer to communities of the Coast
The LCC team As we approach our annual Virtual Coast & Country Conference this Saturday we recognise the real opportunity of it being the last before a General election, and before Labour’s manifesto will be written. Communities of the Coast have always been electorally important to Labour, and this election will be no different; as…