Labour Group

Peterborough City Councillor Amjad Iqbal

Deputy leader of Peterborough Council leaves Labour Party

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Local Elections: Labour – the heartbeat of Peterborough

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Local Elections: Strong on issues that affect us all

cllr Shabina Qayyum

Local Elections: Time we had a National Care Service

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Tories are out of touch, out of time

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: What sort of councillor represents you?

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Cross party working for the greater good

Newark Hill Academy

Opinion: Actions will always speak louder than words

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Demand a sense of duty, service and commitment to your ward

Rachel Reeves' visit to Peterborough on Saturday

Opinion: Tories fiddle whilst England burns

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Let's just imagine....what Peterborough could be like

"It was a Conservative decision to take over the hotel without telling the council, using taxpayers’ money to cover up their own mess."

Opinion: A mess made by a Tory government

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Vote… and make change happen

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: The perils of being defined by social media

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Here we go again with the culture wars

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Doing what we can for others
I haven’t been in Peterborough much for the past two weeks. I was privileged to be accepted on a Local Government Association (the voice for local councils) Leadership course, writes Labour Group leader Dennis Jones.
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Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Robbing Peter(borough) to pay Paul

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Collaboration is alive and well

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: An overwhelming vote of confidence

Men stand through debris and destruction littering a street in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City.
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Opinion: Collective effort needed to find a solution

I am all too familiar with the growth in families turning to foodbanks here in Peterborough. The stark reality is that life has got tougher

Opinion: Shame of 1 in 3 growing up in poverty

Councillor Shabina Asad Qayyum with her brother, who she says was “one of the lucky ones”

Opinion: Realising the value of our NHS

"The stark reality is that people in Peterborough are finding it impossible to get an NHS dentist when they need one."

Opinion: Time our fairytale past became a reality

"There are few parts of the city that aren’t fed-up with the lack of action against this noisy nuisance."

Opinion: Fireworks misuse - a modern-day plague

Cllr Jones (right) with cllr Cole and Jason McNally

Opinion: Pleasure and privilege to support children

Peterborough Museum

Opinion: It's not a time for divide and rule

The Regional Pool at Bishop's Road which is closed again

Opinion: City’s leisure provision needs future-proofing
As summer finally makes an appearance, our pools and leisure facilities take centre stage, writes Labour Group leader Dennis Jones.
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"Here in Peterborough, we have brilliant, dedicated NHS workforce doing their best. But they need funding and support to do their job properly."

Opinion: NHS needs funding and support

Fireworks lighting up the sky

Opinion: Cracking down on firework misuse

So, here’s the fact about road charging in Peterborough: There is no plan. There never has been. It won’t work in Peterborough; we don’t need it and Labour won’t support it. Can we be clearer?

Opinion: ‘There are no road charging plans...’

Under the Tories, 21,000 police officers were axed over the last decade and recorded crime is rising at the fastest rate in a decade. Things cannot go on like this.

Opinion: Our crime statistics are shocking

Cllr Shabina Qayyum with Labour candidate for Peterborough Andrew Pakes

Opinion: People are fed up with the 8am scramble to get a doctor’s appointment

Peterborough's Labour Group are concerned over how families on low incomes are going to meet their bill payments as mortgages hike.

Opinion: Mortgage timebomb ready to go off in Peterborough - Dennis Jones

"There are clear signs that all is far from well within our administration."

Opinion: The House of Cards is falling

Drugs and mental health issues are increasingly common issues for councillors to deal with

Opinion: The times they are a changin…

What sort of councillor represents you?, asks Labour Group leader Dennis Jones

Opinion: What does your councillor do for you?

Fixing the NHS crisis should be the priority. But instead, the local Conservatives are involved in their own crisis.

Opinion: NHS in crisis - but local Tories have one of their own

Foster Care Fortnight, May 15-28

Opinion: Volunteer for life not just The Big Help Out

Local election count 2023 at Peterborough Town Hall. Bretton is won by Labour's Richard Strangward

Opinion: It is still time for change

The Peterborough Conservatives celebrate increasing their number of seats on the city council. Photo: David Lowndes.

Conservatives tighten grip on council

Labour Group leader councillor Dennis Jones

Local elections 23: Transforming our city and our society for the benefit of eve...

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Local elections 23: Don’t be put off by voter ID changes

Labour Group leader councillor Dennis Jones

Local elections 23: Making our city thrive once more

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Local Elections 2023: And they say a week is a long time…

Labour Group leaders Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Local Elections 2023: Debate, not hate is way forward

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt leaves Downing Street with the despatch box to present his spring budget to parliament on March 15 (Getty Images)

Opinion: And the rich are set to get richer!

People want change at the local elections in May

Opinion: It's time for change

Peterborough City Councillor Dennis Jones, the new Labour Group leader

Opinion: With a firm eye on the future

Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party with Shaz Nawaz during a visit to Peterborough City Centre in 2020.

Opinion: It's time for a changing of the guard

St George's Hydrotherapy Pool in Dogsthorpe.

New use found for closed hydrotherapy pool building

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (C), alongside the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, (centre right) at a Cabinet meeting
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Opinion: They make rules which apply to us all

"Enter stage left one of those dummy cheques beloved of charities marking significant donations for the press. One, small snag. The cheque bore the name, not of a charity or other worthy cause, but that of the Conservative party"

Opinion: Why I enjoy making a difference

The change from Truss to Sunak has only turned down the temperature, not changed the prevailing mood

Opinion: A Government crisis of confidence

Doddington Hospital nurses on the picket line last month

Opinion: Strikes are a cry for help from the impossibly pressed

Rishi Sunak - After years of Boris Johnson being all too present in our lives, the Tories perhaps have calculated that being less visible will breed less resentment.
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Opinion: New Year - and a fresh start is needed