Sussex Police has hit back today at claims by its former head of CID that it will fail to meet its targets for recruitment of additional officers in the next two years Earlier this week former Chief Superintendent Kevin Moore poured cold water over claims by the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne that […]
There have been calls today for Amber Rudd to either resign her cabinet post or be sacked by Prime Minister Theresa May. Many believe Ms Rudd broke the convention of collective responsibility which requires government ministers to vote for government policy regardless of their own personal views. In the past ministers unable to uphold the […]
Dedicated Ark students were celebrated at an inaugural award ceremony for the Helenswood and William Parker Sports and Arts bursaries. The ceremony was attended by Hastings MP Amber Rudd who awarded the successful students with their bursaries. Ms Rudd said: ‘“I was delighted to be invited to present scholarships to students of Ark William Parker […]
Sensible people have long ago abandoned the Hastings and Rye branch of the Labour Party. That’s the view of Hastings Borough councillor Dany Louise who quite the party in February, driven out she said because Labour had become a ‘welcoming environment for antisemities’. When, earlier this week, Hastings MP Amber Rudd called for Labour leader […]
The man who chairs the local Labour party has hit out criticism levelled against his party by local MP Amber Rudd who said earlier this week, “Jewish people in Hastings and Rye deserve far better than a local Labour Party obsessed with peddling conspiracy theories about Jewish people.” Ken Maitland, chair of Hastings and Rye […]
Britain’s welfare system is failing the most vulnerable in society according to Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Hastings Peter Chowney who says a report just published by East Sussex Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) proves the point. Speaking in the wake of the publication of the report called It’s Just Not Fair, Mr Chowney says many of […]
It has been a tumultuous week in the national press for Hastings’ MP Amber Rudd. She has been accused of ‘cynical plotting’, she had to ‘furiously deny’ having offered advice to former Tory MP and vehement anti-brexiteer Anna Soubry who left the Conervative party last week and there have been calls for her to resign […]
Amber Rudd is committed to Hastings and in a weekend interview with the Financial Times she categorically denied being on the look-out for a safer seat. In the interview the FT’s political editor George Parker suggested to Ms Rudd that the vulnerability of her constituency (her majority is just 346) to Labour had prompted some people to […]
Could Hastings MP Amber Rudd be heading for the cabinet exit door for the second time in just nine months? Ms Rudd has been forefront of the Brexit debate this week and she is being tipped by the national media as one of several high-profile cabinet ministers who are set to resign in protest if […]
