Sally-Ann Sets Three Oaks Test
In a parliamentary session last week, Hastings & Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart challenged Matt Warman, the under-secretary of state at the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), to confirm that rural villages on the edge of urban centres…
Tiers and Fears
Positive tests for coronavirus infections in Hastings were reported last week to have increased almost fourfold within a seven day period. In the week ending 28th November there were 63 cases recorded across the borough; in the following week ending…
Tories on Hastings Borough Council vote against Equality
Jay Kramer, Vice Chair of Hastings & Rye Constituency Labour Party and former Deputy Leader of Hastings Borough Council with responsibility for Equality, tells us about a recent HBC meeting at which Conservative councillors refused to agree to a clause…
Free food for kids
On 21st October a parliamentary motion to provide around disadvantaged children in England with £15-a-week food vouchers during school holidays until Easter 2021 was voted down by the Conservative government majority at ; Hastings & Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart was…
Breaking Our Word?
Last Monday (14th September) Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye, voted with the Conservative majority in the House of Commons to approve the government’s Internal Market Bill, despite admission by Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis, that its provisions would…
Deal Us In!
West St Leonards community groups seek share in Town Deal to fund development alternatives Since October last year, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has been insisting that it is on the point of signing a lease agreement with developers for the…
Hundreds Face Crisis
Council plea to extend moratorium on evictions By Emma Harwood Hundreds of families and residents across the town will face pain, crisis and homelessness unless the government extends its ban on evictions, the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Homelessness has…
MP Says No To Protecting NHS
Hastings and Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart was among 340 MPs – 339 of whom were Conservative – who voted against protecting the NHS in post-Brexit trade ; The ‘clause 17’ amendment to the Trade Bill, proposed by Green Party MP…
Cross-Channel Migration –The Fallacy
As those who campaign on behalf of asylum-seeking refugees point out, there is a fundamental fallacy at the heart of the Home Office policy spelt out by Immigration Minister Chris Philp (see the parliamentary exchanges here). Mr Philp refers to…
Parliamentary Language
Extract from Debate at Westminster 8th June 2020 John Redwood, MP for Wokingham: Does not also require tougher enforcement against the dreadful people traffickers who are making money out of making a mockery of our laws and undermining all that we…