Labour at the Allendale Agricultural Show

19 August, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Campaigns, Elections, Featured, General Election, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Transport

The Allen Valleys Labour Party Supporters’ Group held a Labour Party stall at the Allendale Agricultural Show today. Local members and supporters on the stall chatted with friends, neighbours, local people and visitors to the area about a range of issues including bus services, affordable housing, the cost of living crisis, the water quality in … Read More

Heavy rainfall sparks sewage alert

15 August, 2023Branches, Bywell, Corbridge, Elections, General Election, Haltwhistle, Health, Hexham, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Prudhoe & District, Work, Economy & Environment

Heavy rain across the North East over the last few days has made for a miserable August and difficult driving conditions. What’s worse is that all of that rain runs into our rivers and oceans through networks of drains and sewers. Massive under-investment by our privatised water companies and repeated lack of action by the … Read More

General Election Campaign Update Meetings

11 August, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Callerton & Throckley, Campaigns, Corbridge, Elections, General Election, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District

Recent polling has shown us that we can elect a Labour MP in Hexham, for the first time ever. And as Labour picks up by-election successes in rural constituencies such as Selby, we know that we can be part of a General Election victory for Labour. But it won’t be easy, and we need every … Read More

Shadow Minister visits Prudhoe in election push

5 August, 2023Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, General Election, Home page featured, News, Prudhoe & District, Women

Anneliese Dodds, the Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities and Chairperson of the Labour Party, visited Prudhoe this week. Speaking to Labour Party members she emphasised the Tories’ disastrous 13 years in power, their broken promises, failed policies and economic mismanagement as interest rates soared again for the fourteenth time in a row. The polls … Read More

Sunak’s bet on dirty fossil fuels an error

31 July, 2023Branches, Campaigns, Elections, Featured, General Election, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Work, Economy & Environment

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today announced 100 new oil and gas exploration licences in the North Sea and carbon capture schemes. He claimed that these risky bets on fossil fuel extraction and unproven carbon capture technologies were justified in the name of energy resilience. The gas and oil extracted from any new North Sea … Read More

Save the ticket office at Hexham Train Station

28 July, 2023Branches, Campaigns, Featured, Hexham, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Transport, Work, Economy & Environment

Proposed changes to our railways will see many ticket offices closed and reduced staffing at stations. The proposals include closing the ticket offices at Hexham meaning that (with the additional planned closure of Carlisle booking office) the only staffed ticket office on the Tyne Valley Line will be at Newcastle. Train operators have outlined that … Read More

Labour welcomes Gigafactory announcement and promises more

18 July, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Corbridge, General Election, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Transport, Work, Economy & Environment

Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, responding to Jaguar Land Rover’s Gigafactory announcement, said: Labour welcomes any investment in British jobs and industry and decisions like these vindicate Labour’s advocacy of an industrial strategy in place of scattergun announcements. In spite of the Government’s cack-handed approach to industry and our economy this shows the … Read More

Campaigning in Stocksfield

8 July, 2023Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Elections, General Election, Home page featured, News, Parliamentary Candidate, Prudhoe & District

We’ll be out and about this week knocking on doors and listening to the concerns of residents in Stocksfield. There’s real unhappiness with Guy Opperman and the Conservative Party. We want to work with everyone who wants to build a better, fairer Britain. 

Under the Tories we have seen local services cut, pollution increase in our rivers, a devastating cost of living crisis and a huge increase in local child poverty and foodbank usage.  Three million miles of bus journeys have been lost in Northumberland; our roads suffer from lack of funding and the Conservative government has failed both our police officers and victims of crime. 

Labour has a real chance to win in the Hexham Constituency after 13 years’ of Conservative failure.

Opperman voted to cut our vital local services

28 June, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, Education, Elections, General Election, Groups, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Parliamentary Candidate, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Women, Youth

Since 2010, Guy Opperman’s Conservative government has systematically cut the money allocated to councils to provide the vital services we all need in Northumberland. It has been calculated by the Institute for Government these cuts by central government have reduced grants to local government in real terms by 37% between 2010 and 2020. That’s from … Read More

Labour offers mortgage help in the face of interest rate catastrophe

22 June, 2023Branches, Campaigns, Elections, General Election, Home page featured, News

With interest rates set to be hiked again a mortgage catastrophe is engulfing homeowners. Labour plans to help struggling mortgage holders and calm the crisis. Labour accused Chancellor Jeremy Hunt of standing by as millions suffer by taking the softer approach of just asking lenders to go further in supporting struggling borrowers. Keir Starmer clashed … Read More

Campaigning for Labour in Heddon on the Wall

17 June, 2023Branches, Campaigns, Elections, General Election, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall

  Labour Party members have been out and about campaigning for a Labour Government in Heddon on the Wall. We’ve been delivering leaflets and talking with our neighbours about politics and the issues that impact their lives. There’s a lot of disillusionment on the doorstep with the Tories and enthusiasm for Labour and our policies. … Read More

Campaigning for Labour in Allendale

10 June, 2023Allen Valleys, Elections, Home page featured, News

Labour Party members have been out and about in Allendale. We’ve been delivering leaflets and talking with our neighbours about politics and the issues that impact their lives. Right across Hexham Constituency Labour Party members are working to Build a Better Britain and get Guy Opperman out after 13 disastrous years of Conservative government. If … Read More

ANZSnack: How the Tories and BoJo betrayed our farmers

2 June, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, Elections, General Election, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Work, Economy & Environment

Free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand were trumpeted by the Conservative Government and the then PM Boris Johnson as victories for post-Brexit Britain. These trade deals came into force a couple of days ago with our current PM Rishi Sunak saying that: ‘These landmark deals squarely deliver on my priorities to drive economic … Read More

Out with Opperman! Campaigning for a Labour Government in Hexham

27 May, 2023Campaigns, General Election, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Parliamentary Candidate

Members of the Hexham Branch of the Labour Party, supported by members from Prudhoe, Bywell, Ponteland and Allen Valleys, were back campaigning in Hexham today after our success in Hexham East in February. We hit the streets and knocked on doors in Hexham Central. We were joined by Alex Norris, the Shadow Levelling-up Minister and … Read More