Starmer promises to bring Labour closer to rural and farming communities
Keir Starmer will promise to bring his party closer to rural and farming communities, with the key message…
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“Urban snobbery”: The Countryside Alliance on Labour’s “rural problem”
The Countryside Alliance has published a report on Labour’s “rural problem”. The document tracks how the party has…
Every job matters. Labour must stand with Britain’s rural workforce
In these extraordinary times, the opportunity to imagine other times and places, to daydream, or to simply enjoy…
320,000 rural jobs at risk under “one-size-fits-all approach”, Labour analysis finds
Analysis by the Labour Party has found that 320,000 jobs in rural communities are at risk if the…
Let’s fire up Labour’s local elections campaign by twinning London members with activists in the countryside
To govern the nation well means being in touch with the realities of the whole of the nation.…
Owen Paterson moves the goalposts again (but this time, without the badgers)
Owen Paterson has been caught moving the goalposts once again, only this time it’s on rural broadband and…
A fair deal for the countryside? How the Tories set out to “impoverish the rural working class”
Today the government will scrap the Agricultural Wages Board for England & Wales without a vote and without…
The case for a Rural Living Wage
As a minister at the old Department for Children, Schools and Families, I was very proud when Ed…
Where costs are king scant concern is given to the impact on rural life
What is this government’s problem with the countryside? It tried and failed to sell off the forests and kill…
One Nation, One Olympics
The rural idyll Olympics! Were you one of the many people surprised to see Danny Boyle’s designs for…
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