Eastbourne Labour is twinned with Hastings & Rye Labour and we are helping Helena Dollimore become the constituency’s Labour MP. I went out on the doors with Helena. She is incredibly well-known and winning people round. We met up with Joe Fortune, the general secretary of the Co-op Party to discuss the idea of a ‘community-to-right-to-buy’ assets such as pubs. This is a brilliant policy to pass community assets into local ownership, saving local facilities like pubs. I want to see the derelict buildings that blight the centre of Eastbourne turned over to the community to own and run.
