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The Government has announced that hundreds of thousands of people, including those in Crawley, will soon be able to access urgent and emergency dental care as the government and NHS rolls out 700,000 extra urgent appointments, delivering on Labour’s manifesto commitment. Peter Lamb, MP for Crawley welcomed the Labour Government’s announcement, describing the new appointments…
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I write from an air raid shelter in Kyiv, on the eve of the third anniversary of the war.I have heard sirens in movies many times, I never thought one would send me running for safety. I am part of the official UK delegation to the Yalta European Strategy conference. These conferences have been running…
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If we want more housing, and want to do so without endless urban sprawl, we need new towns. It’s not a controversial idea, we regularly see people calling for a new wave of new town development, echoing that of the post-war Labour government, and for 18 years administrations have committed to delivering them. In 2007,…
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Government plans to fortify UK steelmaking were welcomed by Crawley Member of Parliament Peter Lamb as a crucial step to preserving the UK’s sovereign steelmaking capacity. The Plan for Steel – launched by Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds earlier this month – will look at the long-term issues facing the industry like high electricity costs, unfair…
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More young people in Crawley will soon have the chance to take on an apprenticeship, owing to the Labour government’s reform of the skills system to unlock opportunity and drive growth. Today 12 February Peter Lamb MP for Crawley, has marked National Apprenticeship Week and visited Gatwick’s Apprenticeship Fair meet with local apprentices and discuss…
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This week is HeartUnions week, a week dedicated to recognising everything trade unions do for us, stand-by for the obligatory ‘What have the Romans done for us?’ parody video. While trade union membership has declined over the decades–with worker pay, pensions and terms and conditions following soon after–unions remain the largest civic society organisations in…
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As part of events marking Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Crawley’s MP–Peter Lamb –has signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment. First commemorated in 2005, on Holocaust Memorial Day we remember and pay tribute to all of those persecuted by the Nazis: Jews, Roma and…
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For almost two decades now, I have had a Fabian Society pamphlet society pamphlet sat on my bookshelf with the title ‘2025: What next for the Make Poverty History generation?‘ Having finally arrived at the mentioned year, I thought I would take a look and see how well the predictions mapped out to the reality.…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 