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Police recorded knife crime in Sussex is up a staggering 15% in the last year, while the number of PCSOs in Sussex has fallen by 136 since the Conservatives took power. The Labour Party has pledged to put bobbies back on the beat to tackle the sharp increase in street crime on Rishi Sunak’s watch…
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Freedom of information requests have revealed that record numbers of people are passing away having never received the treatment they were waiting for. Latest data shows that deaths while waiting for NHS care have increased rapidly across the country over recent years, remaining far higher than when the country was still in the midst of…
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On Friday, it’s the 76th anniversary of the legislation which founded our National Health Service. The NHS is a pillar of our society, one of the things which binds us together as a country from the cradle to the grave, an institution no political party would dare to attack directly for fear of the backlash,…
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Every year at the start of January there are parts of Crawley which flood with such regularity that you could almost mark it in your calendar. For the most part this is simply an annoyance which abates in a day or so, not the kind of event which attracts headlines, but despite being at a…
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Figures from Parliamentary Questions reveal that of the 10,200 families in Crawley with a valid Universal Credit claim, 42% are facing deductions averaging £65 each month. Residents in Crawley face the ninth highest deduction of any constituency within the region. Crawley has amongst the highest levels of in-work poverty in the country, with a stagnating…
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While law-making is a power typically reserved to national structures (Westminster, the devolution bodies, and arcane structures such as the Privy Council), there are other organisations in the UK which have also been granted some law-making powers. While only these national bodies can produce primary legislation, which broadly speaking can cover anything within the competence…
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When the Government decided to use hotels in Crawley as asylum hotels they did so without listening to the local authority, moving hundreds of people into one of the parts of the country where housing is most expensive and in shortest supply. Now, as they close the hotels, they are again failing to consider the…
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A few weeks back, I was speaking at a community group meeting and was asked a question involving ‘high level’ of young adults in Crawley. There was a particular context to the question which I won’t go into, but it came as a surprise, because as I told the questioner, Crawley actually has an unusually…
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Aviation has been a blessing to Crawley’s jobs market for many years, but during the pandemic we saw the other side of this. The consequence of having so many people employed by a single sector was that when that sector had to shut down for months, local families suffered a bigger hit than anywhere else…
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Labour has pledged to get local train services back on track with detailed plans to reform Britain’s railways. Labour’s plans to get Britain moving are crucial to delivering our missions for Government by boosting productivity and driving growth. A growing economy and public services fit for the future need a modern transport system to support…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 