Former Hastings and Rye MP Amber Rudd has been pretty quiet since leaving parliament in 2019 but she’s making a splash in the ‘papers today as she takes aim at the man she once said was “not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening”. Ms Rudd has called into […]
Today is #demanddemocracyday with campaigners up and down the country making their case for why the UK should switch to a new system of voting – proportional representation. Hastings’ former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Nick Perry (pictured above) is fully behind the campaign saying: “More and more people say to me that they would like […]
“This is our time to make this Kingdom united and our Britain great.” That’s how Hastings MP Sally-Ann Hart concluded her maiden speech in the House of Commons this afternoon. In her speech she thanked the local residents of Hastings and Rye for giving her ‘the honour of her life’ in representing the place she […]
It’s two months since the General Election that saw the Labour Party nationally achieve its worst result since 1935. In Hastings and Rye there had been a strong expectation that Labour could win the seat back from the Conservatives but, just as across the rest of the UK, many traditional supporters abandoned their usual preference to […]
Later this week Hastings In Focus will be recording an interview with the town’s new MP Sally-Ann Hart. In the meantime Mrs Hart has outlined here what she sees as her immediate priorities in her new job. I am writing this as your Member of Parliament, sitting at my kitchen table. The early morning house […]
New polling by Coastal Action shows the Conservatives ahead in Hastings and Rye and the pollsters predict it’s likely the Conservatives will hold the seat. But the poll confirms what the candidates have been saying when they spoke to Hastings In Focus over the weekend and that is that large numbers of voters are still […]
Fast-tracking fast trains to Hastings will be top of the list for an incoming Conservative government. Yesterday Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport, said he would ‘prioritise’ the introduction of the 140mph Javelin Trains on the Hastings line if his party wins the General Election next month. The announcement comes after lobbying from the Conservative […]
Over the last two days we’ve been interviewing the three candidates from the main parties who hope to win your vote in the General Election. Full interviews with Peter Chowney, Nick Perry and Sally-Ann Hart will be online on Friday. At the end of each interview we asked each candidate to do what’s known as […]
Last night Rother councillor Sally-Ann Hart was chosen by the Hastings and Rye Conservative Association to be its candidate in the General Election. Mrs Hart won the support of a significant number of the members present at the selection meeting and promised to campaign hard and “campaign to win”. She said the campaign would be […]
