Jack Eddy Articles

Well, it finally happened! The thing for which I and a large number of rural based Labour candidates and activists have been campaigning for for the best part of over two years – the rural manifesto – was released on Tuesday and is already being met with sighs of...

A recent study by Labour has warned that more than 30 million miles of bus journeys have been lost to cuts, leaving many people and communities isolated. And it is Britain's rural areas that are hit worst. The Labour frontbench’s excellent new shadow secretary of...

Between April and September 2012, nearly 21,000 people used food banks in the south-west of England, while, in this year alone, 5,000 people have regularly used food banks in the county of Norfolk. These figures are both an irrefutable sign of a growing rural poverty...