Politics

• News / Politics

  Politicians walk out of meeting as pleas made for council to reverse support for trans people

  Bristol City Council leader Tony Dyer criticised the recent Supreme Court judgement on trans rights

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• News / Holiday Hunger

  Lack of affordable childcare forcing families into debt and out of work

  Councillors unanimously voted in support of Labour's motion aimed at improving holiday childcare

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• Your say / Politics

  ‘I know from my inbox that Bristolians are desperate to see more climate action’

  Carla Denyer reflects on her first year as a Green MP

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• Your say / Politics

  ‘Westminster continues to undermine local autonomy’

  Dr Thom Oliver, a senior lecturer in politics gives his opinion on the erosion of local autonomy

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• News / Politics

  Townsend defends council’s social media monitoring

  The senior Green councillor defends what has previously been called "spying" by Bristol City Council

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• Your say / Politics

  ‘I will continue to support a system which allows for more democracy’

  Bristol's Green group leader Emma Edwards says we should continue with the committee system

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• Your say / Politics

  ‘Labour scrapping the committee system is an insult to Bristol’

  "Keir Starmer clearly does not think local people can make choices for themselves" says Heather Mack

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• Your say / Politics

  ‘The Green-led committee system in Bristol has been nothing short of shambolic’

  Labour's Tom Renhard says the government "is right to step in" to scrap the committee system

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