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Last week the Government announced the second round of Levelling Up Fund bids and once again Crawley missed out, with the Prime Minister’s own constituency–one of the wealthiest in the country–receiving £19m in capital funding. Honestly, this didn’t come as a surprise, Crawley has repeatedly been at the bottom of the list when it comes…
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Speaking at Fabian Conference yesterday morning, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a series of proposals designed to help reduce the cost of living for households across the UK. The package consists of While the Government has yet to respond, Labour’s proposals highlight that there is an alternative to broken economics of the last 13 years.…
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Historically, Crawley has always has one of the UK’s lowest rates of unemployment. Not to take away from the efforts of local business organisations and Crawley Borough Council, but we’ve had some significant advantages to help us with this. When the New Town was built, much of the new population moved out of South London…
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Amongst the biggest problems facing the UK at the moment is a recruitment and retention crisis in the public sector. It’s hitting every part of the NHS, education, social services, local government, policing, justice, and civil service. While inflation has acted as the tipping point, much of the industrial action we’re now seeing in the…
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As nurses across England again go on strike today, only the fourth strike day in the history of the Royal College of Nursing, I thought it worth considering the financial cost of the Government refusing to make a deal. While increasing pay comes at a cost to the Treasury, failing to increase pay also comes…
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Wages in Crawley are 5% lower than when Tories came to power. New analysis from Labour reveals the Tories’ utter failure to grow the economy and to level up Britain, with figures showing that in every region in Great Britain real wages are lower now than when the Tories came to power in 2010, with…
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Even before the fast increase in the rise of inflation, a considerable proportion of our local community were living in poverty, including over a third of the town’s children. Yet, now, with the fastest growing prices in decades, increasing numbers are being forced to take increasingly desperate choices. Research by Kantar and More In Common,…
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I had been meaning to write something of the Strikes Bill ever since the Conservatives first announced their latest attempt to remove the basic rights of those living in the UK. However, having left it so late, most of the criticisms have now been well-covered in both the mainstream and expert media. It has been…
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Yesterday, was Thai Pongal, one of the leading festivals of the Tamil people, giving thanks for the harvest and wishing for prosperity in the year to come. The high point of the festival is the making of Pongal itself, a sweet rice dish which is cooked in a traditional way using a clay pot. Pongal…
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This morning, I officially launched my campaign to be re-selected as Labour’s candidate for Crawley, so that together we can finish the job of removing the Tories from office and building a better future for our community. Crawley is my home and for the last 15 years, I have dedicated my life to serving our…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 