2021

  • Winning in Rural Constituencies | Derbyshire Dales CLP

    Winning in Rural Constituencies | Derbyshire Dales CLP

    It can be hard to stay motivated as a Labour Party in a Conservative Parliamentary stronghold like Derbyshire Dales. We have and likely will always have, a Conservative MP, we lost the County Council to the Conservatives in 2015 and members come and go.   But, the pandemic has proven how important our rural areas…

  • Key Findings of the Virtual Coast & Country Conference 2020

    Key Findings of the Virtual Coast & Country Conference 2020

    As Labour once campaigned and governed because Every Child Matters, so now we must campaign to govern, because Every Job Matters. That means a focus on coast and country as much if not more than anywhere.  Recent Labour research shows the one-size-fit-all approach to furlough is putting millions of jobs at risk – with rural and…