News - Hertsmere Labour Party

More changes to delayed Local Plan as call for employment sites goes out

Hertsmere planners are making a further appeal for potential employment sites in the borough as part of ongoing efforts to secure future economic development. Landowners and other key stakeholders will be receiving letters or emails from planners inviting them to submit any sites with potential for employment. The call has…

Hertsmere Labour win phone banking prize

Throughout January, Labour East have been running a competition to encourage local parties to make use of the party’s new phone banking software, Dialogue. The local party making the most phone calls to residents by the 31 January would win a campaign funding prize. Whilst we are unable to canvass…

Hertsmere Tories investigated by HQ for alleged anti-Semitic abuse of Labour candidate

Conservative Central Office is to investigate the actions of its Hertsmere councillors after alleged anti-Semitic comments were made against a Jewish Labour Party candidate in a Borehamwood by election last February. In the letter to Dr Dan Ozarow, Amanda Milling, Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party, said she had passed the…

County Council to provide free school meals vouchers

The Conservative Cabinet at County Hall has agreed to provide children eligible for free school meals, vouchers to the value of £30 for the Christmas holidays and £15 for February half term. They have also agreed set aside £1m for a further programme of support which will be developed as…

Councillor accused of alleged homophobia elected as mayor

The Conservative councillor at the centre of the Hertsmere homophobic row was installed as Mayor for the Borough last night at an ugly meeting where Labour councillors were silenced by the adjournment of the meeting. Cllr Alan Plancey had given an interview to Jewish News in 2014 which appeared in…

Open letter to proposed new Mayor Cllr Alan Plancey

Labour forces Christmas free school meals

Labour’s demands for a debate on free school meals for Hertsmere’s needy children has prompted the Council to announce a plan for Christmas. Food for meals will be cooked daily by a charity, but it will require funds from the council for their transportation. The financial support will be considered…

Labour councillors demand emergency debate on free school meals

Labour councillors furious with the Government’s refusal to support vulnerable children by providing free school meals over half term and Christmas are demanding an emergency debate in Hertsmere. They are requisitioning an extra-ordinary Council meeting where they will ask the Council to provide funding for the approximately 1800 children within…

Dowden votes against extending free school meals.

Despite Labour Councillors in Hertsmere calling on the Government to fund free school meals throughout the school holidays, Conservative MP, Oliver Dowden, voted against the motion meaning over 1800 Hertsmere children are at risk of going hungry. The call was to extend free school meals for the forthcoming October half…

Council supports delivery of film & TV heritage centre

Unanimous backing has been received for a Labour initiative for a film and television heritage centre that will celebrate Hertsmere’s long-standing association with the industry. The call for the creation of a local group to generate plans and ‘ultimately the delivery of a film and television centre in Borehamwood’ was…

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