August is typically a quiet month for councillors. The regular cycle of committee meetings takes a pause and party politics remains on hiatus following the year’s local elections. It’s a…

Last week, Crawley Borough Council voted unanimously to support the Cabinet’s Budget Strategy. The strategy follows the approach Labour has pursued over recent years and which we put forward in…

Southern Rail is a mess and it’s about time someone did something about it. At tonight’s council meeting we will be debating a Labour motion calling upon the Government to…

Over recent weeks the pace of politics has been difficult to follow, with huge questions hanging over the UK’s political and economic direction. Throughout this period councils have been getting…

Next year is the seventieth anniversary Crawley New Town. The town motto ‘I grow and I rejoice’ and the acorns on the town’s crest—symbolising future growth—bear testament to the post-war…

It won’t have escaped anyone’s notice that last week the UK voted to leave the EU, with Crawley voting decisively for Leave. As I set out in my last column,…