News 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… Elliot Chappell 22nd February, 2021, 10:30 pm
Comment “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… Elliot Chappell 8th September, 2020, 5:15 pm
Comment 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… Hywel Lloyd 26th August, 2020, 3:55 pm
News 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… Elliot Chappell 20th August, 2020, 2:35 pm
Comment 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.… Hywel Lloyd 18th February, 2017, 7:00 am
Comment 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… Huw Irranca-Davies 27th October, 2013, 1:52 pm
Comment 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… Mary Creagh 16th April, 2013, 4:30 pm
Comment 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… Jim Knight 16th January, 2013, 4:03 pm
Comment 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… Diana Holland 2nd November, 2012, 11:00 am
Comment One Nation, One Olympics The rural idyll Olympics! Were you one of the many people surprised to see Danny Boyle’s designs for… Hywel Lloyd 14th June, 2012, 9:51 am