Lowestoft Labour Party

16/10/2026

🚨 Reform UK councillors at Suffolk County Council are planning devastating cuts to services that protect our most vulnerable babies, children and young parents. We cannot let this happen.

Plans to cut Young Parent Pathways, the Family Nurse Partnership, community staff nurses and school nurses will leave vulnerable young parents without vital support, put babies at greater risk of harm and deprive children of the early intervention that keeps them safe.

The consequences for children and families across Suffolk will be devastating and long-lasting. Reform councillors must not put cuts before children’s safety.

📢 The consultation closes THIS SUNDAY, 18 October. Make your voice heard and demand Reform councillors stop these cuts.

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We are consulting because we want to understand how the proposed changes to these services could affect the people who use and deliver them.

23/09/2026

A powerful message from our Labour MP, Jess Asato for Lowestoft 👇

If you want to be part of the fight for decency, respect, and unity - please join your local Lowestoft Labour Party today.

🔗 https://join.labour.org.uk/join

The world these days can feel more divided and dangerous than ever.

Social media can amplify the issues that divide us, powered by algorithms that chase profit rather than peacebuilding.

Too often we are quick to hate. Contempt is rewarded rather than respect. We turn the other cheek rather than react with compassion. We neglect the idea that our neighbourhood is a place that we share with others. We complain rather than problem-solve together.

But it does not have to be like this.

There are many good, decent people living in Lowestoft, Beccles and our local villages.

People who every day choose to love their neighbours rather than hate them. People who know that our community thrives only when we work together for the common good of this place we all call home.

This is a time not to sink easily into division but to rise above it, to free ourselves from the heavy burden of hate, grievance, and anger.

It is time to embrace hope – not division.

To show our neighbours the respect we would ask for ourselves.

There is only one movement in this nation with a long history of bringing people together in the name of our collective good, which believes in the equal worth of all humans, which has a track record of fighting discrimination, and which believes the role of a democratic state is to spread wealth and opportunity to those who are least likely to access it, and that is the Labour movement.

If you want to be part of the fight for decency, respect, and unity – please join the Lowestoft Labour Party today at https://join.labour.org.uk/join

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. We’re at a crossroads – it’s time to act.

04/09/2026

Great to be out with local Labour Councillor Peter Byatt speaking to residents in Windsor Road today - even if the weather wasn’t exactly on our side! 🌧️🌹

🗑️ We had some really useful conversations about how people have been finding the new bin rollout, with residents raising a number of concerns and issues that we’ll be following up on and pressing the Green Party-led administration at East Suffolk Council to address.

Let us know how the new bins are working for you by completing our short survey: 👉 https://survey.labour.org.uk/enogln5ye4qjm0viknvmanvjt

28/08/2026

10/08/2026

Great to see our local Labour councillors in Gunton & St. Margaret’s supporting grassroots football and investing in our local community ⚽️🌹

Most people in Lowestoft will know someone who has played for Waveney FC, especially as a kid. It has been part of our town for generations and is a real part of our sporting history.

That is why Cllr Graham Parker and I are really pleased to give the club £4,444 from our Enabling Communities Budget.

The money will help improve the pavilion at Saturn Close, one of the club’s main training and match sites.

Waveney FC gives local people of all ages and abilities somewhere to play football, make friends and feel part of a team. Just as importantly, they work hard to make sure money does not stop a child from playing.

It is a proper community club and we are proud to support its future. ⚽️

05/08/2026

A community conservation project is seeking volunteers after receiving funding from East Suffolk Council ward members to begin work on revitalising the much-loved green space.

Cllrs Peter Byatt, Louise Gooch and Malcolm Pitchers have given £2,050 of funding from their Enabling Communities Budget towards the restoration of Kirkley Ham.

Owned by Suffolk County Council, Kirkley Ham is a 7-acre space of land. The Ham, Fen Park and Pakefield Wood form part of a 'green corridor' along Tom Crisp Way. In recent years, the area has become overgrown with bramble and gorse, with incidents of antisocial behaviour, fly-tipping and littering becoming more common.

The Friends of Kirkley Ham are now actively seeking volunteers who are interested in nature conservation to help with the project. Volunteers are needed to help identify and protect the many species of plant and wildlife on the Ham, as well as volunteers to get involved in maintenance activities and working parties.

Read more using the link in the comments.

24/06/2026

15/06/2026

"I know many residents have contacted me calling for restrictions on social media to better protect their children. Today we start that work to give children their childhoods back. This tech was never developed with children in mind. We protect what they watch on film and games with age appropriate ratings. But then they are given a phone with access to all the harmful content in the world.

And if that isn’t bad enough, those same social media companies algorithmically target our children with the most divisive content. And keep them hooked like addicts, scrolling for hours on end. Affecting sleep, study, social relationships and time spent in real life with friends outdoors.

Following a consultation where 9 out of 10 parents said they were in favour of a ban, this Government is acting decisively. Giving parents back control, creating new norms on when it’s time to give kids access to advertising platforms which monetise their childhood"

Jess Asato, MP

I know many residents have contacted me calling for restrictions on social media to better protect their children. Today we start that work to give children their childhoods back. This tech was never developed with children in mind. We protect what they watch on film and games with age appropriate ratings. But then they are given a phone with access to all the harmful content in the world.

And if that isn’t bad enough, those same social media companies algorithmically target our children with the most divisive content. And keep them hooked like addicts, scrolling for hours on end. Affecting sleep, study, social relationships and time spent in real life with friends outdoors.

Following a consultation where 9 out of 10 parents said they were in favour of a ban, this Government is acting decisively. Giving parents back control, creating new norms on when it’s time to give kids access to advertising platforms which monetise their childhood.

04/06/2026

STATEMENT

Responding to today’s guilty verdict of Anwar Mohamed to SENDING AN INDECENT OR GROSSLY OFFENSIVE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION WITH INTENT TO CAUSE DISTRESS OR ANXIETY, Jess Asato MP said:

“I am glad this case has finally come to a close, almost two years after receiving a death threat aimed at me and my children.

“Being able to disagree without resorting to abuse, threats, or intimidation is the cornerstone of a healthy and functioning democracy – one that has become increasingly eroded in recent years.

“People who want to serve their communities and stand for elected office should be able to do so without having their safety put at risk.

“It is of particular importance to me that women are not afraid to put themselves forward for election. The abuse and harassment that women in public life receive is unacceptable and I fear women being gradually pushed out of the public realm altogether.

“Today’s verdict underlines the importance of respect in public life and decency in political discussions.”

15/05/2026

Following last week’s elections to Suffolk County Council, Reform has now appointed Michael Hadwen to lead the Council.

He will run a £850 million budget on issues that matter to all of us – including roads, potholes, buses, local schools, SEND support, adult social care, and libraries.

But who is Michael Hadwen?

He’s another recycled Tory with a history of backing the far-right who jumped ship to Reform to save his career and helped run Kent County Council into the ground.

Given the state he left Kent County Council in, what will he do to Suffolk County Council?