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During my time as council leader, amongst the ideas Crawley Labour developed but which never progressed very far was the idea of co-locating the Job Centre with the Town Hall. The immediate benefit of this would have been a saving in building costs for the public sector, but the real goal was to try to…
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Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of joining the crowd watching Santa switch on the Christmas tree lights in Queens Square. It was a great afternoon of performances and the crowd looked larger than it has been over recent years. Since its inception five years ago, the Town Centre Business Improvement District has worked hard…
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While I set out in detail at the time of the Opposition Day Debate why I believe that using funding which is in most cases no longer used for heating to instead address capacity issues in the NHS is the right thing to, I did highlight that I had concerns that the threshold for Pension…
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Parties warn MPs not to comment on political events overseas. Doing so risks it becoming a news story and can affect the strategic approach of their frontbench, and recent days have seen senior MPs on both sides of the aisle attempt to explain away comments they have previously made about the President-elect. We’re in the…
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Earlier in the week, Peter Lamb, MP for Crawley, planted a wooden cross in the House of Common’s Garden of Remembrance in recognition of the huge sacrifices made by members of the Armed Forces from Crawley. Every year, Parliament’s New Palace Yard is transformed into a Garden of Remembrance, with Members of Parliament invited to…
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Peter Lamb, Labour MP for Crawley, recently visited the Three Bridges depot and train operating centre as part of the Railway Industry Association’s (RIA) Rail Fellowship Programme. The initiative provides UK parliamentarians with a be-tter understanding of the work of the UK rail supply chain. The MP toured the depot and traincare facility and gained…
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Last week was supposed to be a week of two resets in British politics. For Labour, it was a chance to reset the economy after 14 years of mismanagement and for the Conservatives a chance to reset their party after a landslide election defeat. After months of stories suggesting major Budget cuts, what emerged was…
