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Winning in Rural Constituencies | Derbyshire Dales CLP

December 16, 2020by Labour:Coast&CountryLeave a comment

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…

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Defra threatens to cut funding to rural action network

January 14, 2015January 21, 2018by Labour:Coast&CountryLeave a comment

Just before Christmas on a cold, snowy day in Buxton I was one of the guest speakers at Rural Action Derbyshire’s AGM. I have known Rural Action Derbyshire (RAD), which is part of the ACRE network, and the excellent work it does in a number of incarnations over the years. Like me it maybe that…

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