Richard Burgons Speech to Labour Conference 2019
Key Points Reverse all cuts to legal aid-funded Early Legal Help in first 100 days.…
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Conference 2019
Andrew Gwynne Speech to Labour Conference 2019
Key Points Labour Government to deliver bill to rebuild local services This will give councils…
John Healey speech to Labour Conference 2019
Key Points 1 million new council or housing association homes. Living rent homes with rent…
Jonathan Ashworths speech to Labour Conference 2019
Key points The greenest health service in the world. “As we rebuild our hospitals we’ll…
Margaret Greenwood Speech to Labour Conference 2019
Diane Abbotts Speech to Labour Party Conference 2019
Dawn Butlers Speech to Labour Party Conference 2019
Key Points ] Workplace menopause policies. “I am pleased to announce that a Labour government,…
Sue Hayman’s speech to Labour Conference 2019
Key Points Food banks. “Labour will halve food bank usage within our first year in…
Rebecca Long Baileys Speech to Labour Party Conference 2019
Key Points People’s Power Plan. Full story here. Electric cars. “We will accelerate the electric…
Our Health Service
The Tories continue to run down the NHS
The Tories have spent nine years running down the NHS, imposing the biggest funding squeeze…
NHS Service cuts at QEII hospital: Further public consultation
In a previous post we drew attention to proposed service cuts at the QEII hospital…
More NHS service cuts at QEII in Welwyn
In our neighbouring constituency of Welwyn and Hatfield, my fellow Labour parliamentary candidate Rosie Newbigging…
Schools and Education
Angela Rayners Speech to Labour Party Conference 2019
Key Points Private schools. “That is why we’ll upgrade social mobility to social justice, turning…
Labour announces radical shake up of higher education admissions system
Ahead of A-Level results day tomorrow, Labour has today (Wednesday 14 August) announced plans to…
Jill Borcherds: Building a National Educational Service
On Sunday 3rd March, Jill Borcherds, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Stevenage, alongside Hertfordshire County Councillor,…
The Barclay School. Statement Angela Rayner MP
Academisation: Some Facts.
The rise and rise of academies is a real cause for concern to all parents.…
Academies: Promised freedoms not delivered.
“Academisation has actually put the clock back 30 years to an era where schools were…
Stevenage: Table of budget cuts by School
#backtoschoolcuts The table below shows an estimate of the real-terms budget cuts that every school…
Herts County Council accept Labour motion that Government cuts are damaging schools.
17-7-2018 Conservatives at Herts county council today withdrew a motion opposing the Labour Group motion…
Housing
Nearly 900,000 fewer under 45s owning their own home
Nearly 900,000 fewer under 45s owning their own home at a time when more and…
New figures show 80% rise in homeless children since 2010
New analysis on the number of children in temporary accommodation has highlighted the complete failure…
Thousands of children growing up in shipping containers, office blocks and B&Bs
A report by the Children’s Commissioner for England estimated there could be more than 210,000…
Over two million households paying more than a third of their income in rent
New House of Commons analysis released shows that over two million private renting households in…
The Conservatives can’t fix the country’s housing crisis. Labour will.
The Conservatives can’t fix the country’s housing crisis. Labour in Government will. Build a million…
Tories ‘off track’ on 300,000 homes a year target
At the current rate of growth in new homes built a year it will take…
Womens Forum
Stevenage Labour says “Give WASPI Women their pension!”
The Stevenage Labour Party is appalled by the High Court decision against two women born…
Womens Forum: Funds raised for Breast Cancer Research
A thankyou to Stevenage Womens Forum June meeting received from fund raisers for breast cancer…
Womens Forum Newsletter June 2019
Women’s Officer Update Following the Stevenage CLP AGM on Saturday 8th June, I was elected…
Businesses and Services
Rebecca Long Baileys Speech to Labour Party Conference 2019
Key Points People’s Power Plan. Full story here. Electric cars. “We will accelerate the electric…
Waitrose Jobs and Post Office future
Labour County Councillor Josh Lovell has today written to the senior press officer at Waitrose…
Stevenage New Town Regeneration. SG1 Consultation
SG1 is a partnership between Stevenage Borough Council and Mace to deliver new investment into…
Stevenage Labour Parliamentary Candidate Lobbies Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer over Stevenage Jobs
Today, Jill Borcherds, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate personally met with the Shadow Secretary of State for…
Localism
An interesting and very positive development spinning off from the ongoing regeneration of the…
Town centre regeneration
Town Plan Labour party members and the public will recall that the most recent Local…
Railway Chaos
Renationalise the railways
Jill Borcherds experience of and views on local railway services.
#allchangeplease
Tired of our broken railways? Tell us about it here.
STEVENAGE LABOUR PARTY: END STEVENAGE’S RAIL MAYHEM!
Labour’s newly selected Parliamentary Candidate for Stevenage, Jill Borcherds (pictured, right), the Labour Party’s Shadow…
Disabilities
Scrapping Universal Credit and Social Insecurity
Social security should reduce poverty not create it. It is there to support people in…
Epilepsy sufferers in North Herts lose benefits under ‘seriously flawed’ new system
Acknowledgements to The Stevenage Comet for publicising this shameful news. The charity Epilepsy Action…
Disabilities
Stevenage CLP is reviewing its approaches to including disabled people, their family and carers in…