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Ben Bradshaw MP


The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many not the few, where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe, and where we live together freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.

March 2009

Labour Councillors Block Lib Dem Rent Rise


Exeter's Labour councillors have been successful in blocking an inflation busting 6.2% rent rise planned by the Liberal Democrats.

Lib Dem rent riseIn January the City Council’s ruling Liberal Democrat group voted for a 6.2% rent rise for Exeter’s Council tenants, rejecting a Labour proposal that rents should only rise by 3.1%.

But following lobbying of Housing Minister Margaret Beckett by local Labour councillors the council has been forced to halve the proposed Lib Dem increase.

Labour Group leader Pete Edwards said: “This a victory for common sense.  In attempting to impose an inflation busting rent rise in the current economic climate showed the utter contempt the Liberal Democrats have for Exeter’s Council tenants, and have again highlighted the shambolic way in which they have run our city since they took power by the back door last May.  I applaud Margaret Beckett for overruling the Lib Dems plans.”