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Peter Lamb, Labour MP for Crawley, has welcomed the Government’s announcement that it intends to ban children under the age of 16 from accessing social media platforms, describing the move as an important step towards protecting young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The proposed measures come amid growing concern about the impact of social media…
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Peter Lamb, Labour MP for Crawley has joined the campaign for fathers to be given “Extra Time” with their families, backing a campaign from Movember and The Dad Shift to improve paternity leave in the UK. Ahead of England’s opening World Cup match and in the week of Father’s Day, MPs are donning World Cup…
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To lose any young person is a deep tragedy, but to die in such a violent way, and without the support of those tasked with your protection is too hard to bear. Two decades ago, I was a student at the University of Southampton, the pub Henry Nowak visited that night was a regular haunt…
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Crawley Borough Council is to receive more support in tackling the scourge of boarded up shops with a major expansion of powers to bring more long-term vacant properties into use. Communities Secretary Steve Reed has announced a £10 million expansion to High Streets Rental Auctions (HSRA) to ensure more councils across England can take on…
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There is an old two-panel political cartoon of a party activist confidently going to knock on a door surrounded by thought bubbles containing the kinds of issues national debates tend to focus on, but his face turns to surprise in the second panel when he discovers the voter instead raising bin collections, housing conditions and…
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After 33 years, today Crawley’s rail services go back into public ownership. It’s not a magical fix, but for the first time in decades it is the country and not shareholders who are the sole focus of our rail service. The Government already froze rail fares this year for the first time in 30 years,…
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Adults locked out of learning in Crawley to access university and college through once-in-a-generation reforms Adults balancing responsibilities such as work and childcare will now have a new route into university and college thanks to radical reforms by the Labour government to create a new, more flexible student finance system. From September 2026, for the…
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As I’ve often written before, the UK has been in a challenging position for some time. The long-term impact of the Banking Crisis, followed by Austerity, Brexit, and COVID-19 left us with little room for borrowing and low growth rates. This weak position has been compounded by the unwinding of globalisation as the Russia-Ukraine War,…
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Peter Lamb, Labour MP for Crawley has backed new Government action to tackle knife crime, as part of its plan to halve knife crime. With knife crime already down by 8%, and knife-related homicides and hospital admissions for assault with a sharp object at their lowest level in a decade, Labour has announced plans to…
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Peter Lamb MP has welcomed new action from the Labour Government to tackle the backlog in the Access to Work scheme, helping more disabled people and people with health conditions get the support they need to stay in or return to work. The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that nearly 500 additional staff…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 