John Healey said: “We must step up support for Ukraine and pressure on Putin, to force him to recognise that now is the time for peace.”
The leader told a cheering crowd of his party’s election candidates staff would be told: “You either work from the office or you’re gone.”
In his latest column, MP Josh Dean looks at the British Steel situation and discusses meeting community groups in Hertford and Stortford
Five candidates, representing each of the main political parties, standing for election in Bishop’s Stortford will answer questions from the audience.
The Tories, Labour, Lib Dem and Reform are contesting all 78 divisions while the Green Party is absent in one – and there are 35 others.
The application, by Reform UK’s Graham McAndrew and Conservative Geoffrey Williamson, follows the death of a pedestrian during last year’s festival.
“I want us to get on the front foot and own the changes and challenges and owning our own destiny - and actually embrace the changes that are coming.”
Conservatives accuse East Herts Council’s Green and Liberal Democrat administration of “turning Bishop’s Stortford into Birmingham”.
Issy Waite, who challenged the Conservative leader for the North West Essex seat, rapped North East Herts MP Chris Hinchliff’s environmental stance.
Terry Smith, who lost his deposit in 2021, is contesting Buntingford on Herts County Council and the first East Herts Council by-election since 2023.
Hertford and Stortford MP Josh Dean writes on Stansted Airport College, a Stortford primary school ministerial visit and the National Youth Strategy.
The 78-seat council currently has 42 Conservatives, 22 Liberal Democrats, 6 Labour, 5 Independents, 1 Green and 1 Reform UK with one seat vacant.
Two Stansted Airport College students took part in Commons event as part of committee inquiry into environmental sustainability and housing growth.
Conservatives under fire for protest against “three-weekly collection arrangement they themselves designed and approved in 2022”.
