Politics

News From Brighton’s latest politics-related stories:

• Brighton MP elected on to 1922 Committee
  Brighton Kemptown’s MP Simon Kirby has been elected on to the influential 1922 committee. He was one of 12 MPs to join the committee for backbench Conservative MPs, which collectively help to in …
• Labour tell Brighton’s Tories to stop whinging
  Labour’s leader in Brighton and Hove has told the city’s Conservative party group to stop ‘whinging’ and get on with being ‘an effective opposition. Cllr Gill Mitchell …
• Caroline Lucas steps down as Green Party leader
  Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Green Party. Ms Lucas, who became the party’s first member of parliament in the 2011 General Election, wil …
• Local Tories slam Labour for ‘disingenuous’ comments on gay marriage
  Senior Labour councillors in Brighton and Hove have been accused of trying to ‘play politics of the past’ with ‘disingenuous’ comments on the subject of gay marriage. The local …
• Hove MP demands action to stop money being wasted on EU bureaucracy
  The Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade has demanded that the UK lead the way in ending EU bureaucracy that could be wasting billions of pounds. Mike Weatherley has welcomed a report by the Op …