countryside Articles

Ten years ago the Hunting Act became law, ending one of the most tumultuous parliamentary battles of the last two decades. It was a major moment in the campaign to halt the cruel and unnecessary practice of hunting with dogs before the act finally came into force on...

In 1995 I was working as an organiser for the Young Labour movement, helping to put Tony Blair as opposition leader in front of young audiences to engage with them on the importance of politics to their future lives. I recall a gathering at a school in Wimbledon where...

The delightful counties of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire contain four parliamentary seats, all of which have been Labour, which we need to win again if we are to have a good chance of achieving a majority government in 2015. Taken together these seats are perhaps...

We often assume that if you live in an urban part of the country, you will naturally vote Labour and if you live in the countryside you will simply vote Conservative. When you look at the ‘safe’ Labour cities like Manchester, Liverpool and Stoke and ‘rock solid’ blue...