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A review of Brighton & Hove Labour in 2014

A review of Brighton & Hove Labour in 2014

A lot has happened since I wrote my review of 2013. Every year has its ups and downs, and if you are an Albion season ticket holder like me you’ll know what I mean. Yet every time I walk on the Downs, in view of the sea and the city centre, I’m reminded of how lucky we are to live here.

Kemptown MP secures protection for HIV prevention funding

Kemptown MP secures protection for HIV prevention funding

Following an outcry over Government plans to cut HIV Prevention funding by 50% in the year commencing April 2015, Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS has lobbied Ministers at the Department of Health on the issue of funding for HIV pr

Ashcroft Poll shows Lucas 10 points ahead in Brighton Pavilion

Ashcroft Poll shows Lucas 10 points ahead in Brighton Pavilion

In his final poll of marginals for 2014 the Tory Peer Lord Ashcroft has included the Brighton Pavilion constituency held presently by Caroline Lucas MP for the Greens. THE POLL shows the Green Party ten points ahead with a four point swing from Labour and interestingly reveals that a higher proporti

Kemptown MP keeps up pressure for a solution to Eaton Place surgery closure

Kemptown MP keeps up pressure for a solution to Eaton Place surgery closure

Simon Kirby MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven travelled yesterday afternoon (December 11) to the Headquarters of NHS Surrey and Sussex in Horley to discuss the future of the Eaton Place surgery and GP provision in Kemp Town. He met with the Sussex area director and other members of NHS England,

Brighton & Hove Labour councillor defects to UKIP

Brighton & Hove Labour councillor defects to UKIP

Leigh Farrow, Labour Councillor for Moulsecoomb and Bevendean will announce at full council today that he has joined UKIP. Cllr Farrow a member of the Labour Party for 30 years was banned from standing as a councillor for the Labour and Coopeerative at next years local elections at a branch meeting

Labour candidate calls on Kemptown MP to vote to save firefighters pensions

Labour candidate calls on Kemptown MP to vote to save firefighters pensions

Nancy Platts, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven has written to Simon Kirby MP asking him if he will vote to save firefighters’ pensions in the Parliamentary debate on Monday. Nancy issued her challenge after the Conservative MP met with the Fire Minister, Penny Mo

Kemptown MP presses Fire Minister on firefighter pensions

Kemptown MP presses Fire Minister on firefighter pensions

Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven met in parliament today with Communities Minister, Penny Mordaunt MP, to discuss the firefighters and their pensions. He sought the meeting with the Minister in order to press again the concerns of firefighters and to ask the Minister to look agai

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