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Brighton MP elected on to 1922 Committee

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…

Labour tell Brighton’s Tories to stop whinging

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‘s comments come after…

Local Tories slam Labour for ‘disingenuous’ comments on gay marriage

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 Conservative…

Hove MP demands action to stop money being wasted on EU bureaucracy

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…

Brighton’s i360 project to receive government loan

Brighton’s i360 project to receive government loan

The proposed i360 observation tower on Brighton’s seafront is to receive a £3m loan from the Government’s ‘Growing Places’ fund. The i360 is a proposed 183-metre (600ft) observation tower, which…

Scout Community Week supported by local MP

Scout Community Week supported by local MP

Next week sees the start of Scout Community Group, which will be better known by many as ‘Bob a Job Week’, and the scheme is being supported by Brighton Kemptown…

Hove MP urges Osborne to rethink Listed Building VAT reform

Hove MP urges Osborne to rethink Listed Building VAT reform

Conservative MP Mike Weatherley has spoken out against his party’s proposed changes to the VAT exemption on listed buildings work. It has been proposed by the coalition government to remove…

Hove MP celebrates news of Abu Qataba’s imminent deportation

Hove MP celebrates news of Abu Qataba’s imminent deportation

Hove MP Mike Weatherley has celebrated the news that hate cleric Abu Qataba is soon to be deported from the United Kingdom. The cleric is to be deported to Jordan…

Residents extremely angry over travellers, says Hove MP

Residents extremely angry over travellers, says Hove MP

Brighton and Hove residents are ‘extremely angry at the Green Party and their lackadaisical policies’, according to Hove MP Mike Weatherley. The MPs comments follow a public meeting he organised…

Opposition parties urged to see sense ahead of budget meeting

Opposition parties urged to see sense ahead of budget meeting

The Labour and Conservative groups in Brighton and Hove have been urged to ‘see sense’ by the Green Party ahead of Thursday’s potentially tempestuous council budget setting meeting. The city’s…

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