On social media this morning we’ve highlighted a piece from our archive asking ‘whatever happened to Amber Rudd’? Keep reading and we’ll tell you at the bottom of the story, safe to say Ms Rudd has not become an unemployment statistic. A year ago the Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye was seen as […]
The UK’s departure from the European Union next week is an event that is “significant for each of us individually and as a town,” according to Councillor Rob Lee who leads the Conservative group on Hastings Borough Council (HBC). And Mr Lee believes the council should mark the event with a “symbolic gesture”. In an […]
Brexit is making the staffing crisis at East Sussex Healthcare Trust even worse according to the Liberal Democrats. Figures published by the Lib Dems reveal that 84 EU staff working at East Sussex Healthcare Trust have already left the health service this year, including 27 nurses and midwives. In the three years since the Brexit […]
People’s Vote – the organisation that mobilised thousands of people in mass protests in London calling for a second referendum – has endorsed Peter Chowney Labour’s candidate for Hastings and Rye. People’s Vote will be advising all those who want another chance to have their say on Britain’s future relationship with the European Union to […]
Hastings’ outgoing MP Amber Rudd yesterday voted against the government and backed the rebel amendment that scuppered the Prime Minister’s chances of passing a new Brexit deal. And while the drama unfolded inside parliament, outside a claimed one million people gathered to march on Parliament, demanding that any deal agreed by our MPs is put to […]
Amber Rudd says she doesn’t go out much anymore, she told an audience last week: “…over the past year I have become increasingly reclusive. Whether it’s the constant presence of the microphones outside my house or the fact that everywhere I go people ask me ‘what’s happening?’.” She was giving the keynote speech at the […]
Amber Rudd has been ‘a great champion for Hastings and Rye’ and has been ‘working tirelessly’ for her constituents since she was elected in 2010 according to Martin Clarke, chairman of the Hastings and Rye Conservatives. “During the last nine years she has helped to achieve great improvements in many areas of life in the […]
Nick Perry is in an upbeat mood and it wasn’t just the fine weather in Alexandra Park when we met today that was cheering him up writes Stuart Bailie. Perry has endured some tough times as a Liberal Democrat and his three bids to become the Liberal Democrat MP for Hastings and Rye have come […]
This time yesterday Nick Perry announced he would be the Lib Dem candidate in Hastings and Rye in any snap General Election and this morning broadcast and print media is full of speculation that that national poll might just be weeks away. Within hours of his announcement Mr Perry was being criticised for planning to […]
