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The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MPSecretary of State for Business and TradeDepartment for Business and TradeOld Admiralty BuildingAdmiralty PlaceSW1A 2DY Tuesday 29th August 2023 Dear Secretary of State, Following the news last week that hundreds of Wilko stores are likely to close, including the store serving my own community of Crawley, I am writing to…
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While the history of Crawley has mostly been driven by it being a convenient stopping place half-way between London and the South coast, like any town of its age Crawley has played an important role in providing a venue for markets over the years. The first mention of a market in Crawley comes from 1203,…
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Data sourced by the Labour Party through Freedom of Information requests has revealed patients at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust are facing long waits for cancer care, showing that: Waiting times for cancer patients in England have worsened every year since the Conservatives came to power in 2010. The government is now set to cut…
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Over the last week, a number of people have expressed their concerns over the proposed closure of ticket offices in Crawley and across England. I share those concerns and have written to the Secretary of State to ask that he intervene to avoid yet another reduction in passenger facilities. The Rt Hon Mark HarperSecretary of…
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Today, is Armed Forces Day and across the UK, people have been taking the time to show their tanks to veterans and those currently serving in uniform. Throughout the morning and early afternoon we have had events and stalls in the Memorial Gardens marking the day. Over the last seven years, our region has contributed…
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Were the General Election held yesterday, Crawley would now be a Labour constituency. Across Crawley, voters delivered record majorities in safe Labour seats, with the Conservatives retaining just four seats, most by their narrowest of margins in decades. Had fewer people voted Green in Three Bridges or Pound Hill South & Worth, those seats would…
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Today a third of the seats on Crawley Borough Council are up for election. The borough council run around half of local services in Crawley, with the others being the responsibility of West Sussex County Council. In addition to running a number of important services, the borough council gets to set part of Crawley’s council…
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You will be relieved to know that tomorrow is Election Day, meaning that we all get a well-deserved break from all the leaflets, door-knocks, news coverage, and endless social media content, before the much bigger ramp up to next year’s General Election. Hopefully everyone now knows they will need to show valid photo ID when…
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In 2014, I led Labour back into administration at Crawley Borough Council after eight years of Conservative control, the only period of Conservative control in the history of the borough. Over those nine years we have to steer the town through Austerity, Brexit, COVID, and a Cost of Living crisis, for two years of which…
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In 2012, Crawley Labour regained three seats from the Conservatives, the first major gains for the party since the early 1990s. At that point it became clear that the 2014 Crawley Borough Council elections would be a genuine contest for control of the council. As the newly-appointed Leader of the Opposition I then dedicated the…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 