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Labour to march at Trans* Pride on Saturday

Gary Hart July 24, 2015

The Brighton and Hove Labour and Co-operative Group will be marching at Trans* Pride tomorrow, Saturday July 25. Warren Morgan, Labour Leader of the Council, Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove and Portslade and Nancy Platts, Chair of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party issued a joint statement.

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LGBTQ+ News

Labour take control of City Council as the largest group

Besi Besemar May 11, 2015

A clean sweep of Labour councillors in troubled Queens Park Ward pushed Labour, three seats ahead of the Conservatives to make them the largest party on the city council at the local election count yesterday, (May 9). In a spectacular reversal of the 2011 results when Greens took control of the city with 23 seats (Conservative 18 seats and Labour 13 seats), Labour leapfrogged from third place to become the largest party with 23 seats, the Conservatives taking 23 seats and the Greens coming in a poor third place with 11 seats.

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News

Labour issues final call to voters ahead of local elections

Besi Besemar April 28, 2015

Labour in Brighton and Hove has issued a call to voters to give them a majority in next week’s city council elections on Thursday, May 7. Councillor Warren Morgan, Leader of the Labour and Co-operative Group, said: “In a week’s time, residents of Brighton and Hove choose who runs the city council for the next four years. They need to vote on local issues like housing, poverty, schools and jobs, on who can get the city’s streets clean again and turn around the abysmal refuse and recycling record of the Greens.

“Labour is in second place in almost all of the Green wards, as well as being the main competitor in Tory held seats. Another four years of confusion, division and deadlock on the council won’t help our city. I’m asking voters to elect a majority Labour council that will make the council work for you and your neighbourhood: a council that is guided by progressive, co-operative values, and one that will work for a brilliant, inclusive, visionary and modern city.”

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General News

Labour council leader welcomes ‘policing pledge’

Besi Besemar April 10, 2015

Councillor Warren Morgan, Leader of the Labour and Co-operative Group on Brighton and Hove City Council, has welcomed a pledge to protect neighbourhood policing. If elected in May, Labour will introduce a new ‘Local Policing Commitment’, which makes sure police forces guarantee neighbourhood policing in every area.

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General News

Labour express serious concerns over ‘Valley Gardens’ scheme

Besi Besemar March 18, 2015

After Green and Conservative councillors united to vote through a five-year plan for road works in Valley Gardens, Labour has renewed its pledge to suspend and review the scheme if elected at the local elections in May. The council will have to meet 25% of the project costs and Labour claim the Greens only won funding from the Government’s Local Enterprise Partnership by claiming cross party support for the project which Labour say they had not given.

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General News

Labour launch manifesto for May local elections

Besi Besemar March 3, 2015

Labour and Cooperative launched their manifesto for the local elections this evening, (March 3) at Donetello’s restaurant in Brighton. Special guest speaker, the former Secretary of State for Health and member for West Hull and Hessle, Alan Johnson MP, was delayed on the train from London so Cllr Warren Morgan the Labour group leader took the opportunity to thank all local labour volunteers and councillors present for their hard work and inform them that for the third year running the Labour budget had been adopted earlier in the afternoon.

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News

Councillors fail to set a budget

Besi Besemar February 28, 2015

Following the failure of Brighton and Hove City Council to set a budget for 2015-16 at the Council’s budget meeting on Thursday night (February 26), the Labour leadership is calling on Green and Conservative councillors to come to an agreement when the council reconvenes on Tuesday so that residents, services and businesses are clear about the future.

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LGBTQ+ News

Give local services a fighting chance: Labour issue budget challenge to other parties

Besi Besemar February 22, 2015

Labour fight to stop savage cuts to the Pride Parade, the Mayoralty and the Women’s Refuge. The Labour group on the city council are challenging the Greens and Tories to put aside party politics and unite around a budget that is best for Brighton and Hove at the annual Council meeting to set the budget on Thursday, February 26.

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Health

Labour pledge to raise awareness on mental health

Besi Besemar February 9, 2015

Labour have pledged to support ‘Time to Change’ and have signed up to their mental health anti-stigma programme. Labour believe mental health should be given equal priority with physical health, as outlined in the government’s mental health strategy implementation framework.

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