Hull Labour Councillors

05/11/2026

🖊️ Hull's three MPs have written to the leader of Reform UK regarding allegations against Mayor Luke Campbell. Does he agree that he should be suspended as a Reform member and step aside as mayor, pending the reported police investigation?

Read the letter below 👇

04/11/2026

Have you got your copy of The Hull Story this month? Our local survey is featured!

Tell us what you think at: survey.labour.org.uk/localhullsurvey

03/11/2026

𝐇𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬

Hull Labour is saddened by this evening's news about the closure and sale of Spiders nightclub. Spiders is a Hull institution and we hope a buyer is found very soon who will continue to operate it.

This underscores the importance of community-owned and co-operative businesses, and of listing locations as Assets of Community Value, so that important venues like this can be safeguarded. Hull Labour will always push to extend the number of these businesses and assets in our city.

Our leader, Cllr Daren Hale, will be writing to the Council's regeneration officers to ask them to work with the current owners to seek assurances about the club's future.

03/11/2026

Today, Labour councillors Paul Harper and Jessica Smith visited MKM Stadium in their role as members of the Council's Culture & Leisure scrutiny commission.

In particular, they were looking at the work of the stadium's health and safety team - the Council has legal responsibilities relating to event health and safety at the stadium, and Labour councillors are holding them to account on this year-round.

Thank you to all involved in organising!

02/11/2026

Welcome back Karl Bushby!

It was emotional and inspiring to welcome Karl back to Hull this morning - he was greeted by the Lord Mayor, and the Labour MP for east Hull, Karl Turner, who also delivered a message of congratulations from Andy Burnham.

"You bring a story of what can be accomplished through extraordinary determination and self belief."

31/10/2026

🏚️ Hull City Council is set to receive £2.58m of government funding to help restore derelict community and high street buildings.

Where do you want to see this money spent in Hull? Tell us below 👇

30/10/2026

Back in June, Labour councillor Denise condemned the privatisation of our water network, and the shoddy performance of the private companies. Now, the boss of Yorkshire Water has quit after a damning environmental report.

Hull Labour is speaking up for public control of our local water network.

30/10/2026

NEW: Yorkshire Water boss RESIGNS over woeful 1-star environmental rating

Just yesterday, Labour councillor Denise Thompson spoke to Hull Live about this scandalous rating, and called for Yorkshire Water to be brought into public ownership. And today, their CEO has quit over that shock report.

Labour is committed to greater public control over water, and to allowing publicly-owned water companies to be set up once again: we want Yorkshire Water to be one of the first taken back into public hands!

30/10/2026

RIP Patrick Stewart.

Today Kirklees Labour are thinking of the family and friends of Sir Patrick Stewart.

Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield in 1940 where he grew up and first enjoyed acting and performing theatre. He later went on to be a trainee journalist for the Dewsbury Reporter, then training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

His acting career took him from being a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company to the heights of Hollywood action, and a fan favourite in films such as Star Trek and X-Men.

Stewart served as Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield for over a decade, was knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2010 for services to drama. In 2024 Sir Patrick Stewart was recognised for his exceptional career and awarded Hon Freedom of the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. Sir Patrick was also a long time supporter and member of the Labour Party.

An exceptional life and career for one of Kirklees' best.

29/10/2026

❓ There's a lot of talk about Luke Campbell and the mayoral authority lately - but what does it all mean? Why should you care?

Because mayoral authorities are getting more and more powers and money these days. So much of the money announced in the budget yesterday was allocated to mayors. They're responsible for all sorts, from buses, to skills and local development.

Luke Campbell's mayoral authority is failing on all of these. Our leader, Daren Hale, wrote for The Hull Story about this - and why we need the government to step in and sort it out ASAP 👇