This May marks ten years since I became Labour Leader on Crawley Borough Council. To say a lot has happened in that time is an understatement, given the general chaos…

A week on from the Spring Statement and the fallout has yet to end. The statement not only failed to meaningfully address the cost of living crisis affecting households across…

A Crawley Borough Council housing development named after Geraint Thomas, who was the council’s cabinet member for Environmental Services and Sustainability when he sadly passed away in November 2019, was…

Today is the second National Day of Reflection, a day dedicated to those lost during the course of the pandemic, two years on from the UK’s first lockdown. It’s hard…

‘We’re all in this together’, that’s what George Osborne said just before the Conservatives took power in 2010. We were told it as we lost jobs and services, as families…

Since 2020, COVID-19 has drastically cut the council’s sources of income, leading to the cross-party cuts agreed last year, the only cuts made during my time as Leader. While the…