rural poverty

Caerfyrddin MP Ann Davies said rural communities cannot be an afterthought for Government as events in the Middle East start to affect farmers' living standards and their businesses

Rural communities have been overlooked by successive Governments, the report says, with assumptions that they are areas assumed to be 'prosperous, politically peripheral, or resistant to change'

Ribble Valley MP Maya Ellis writes on the work of the Labour Rural Research Group, an upcoming report on rural poverty and why rural communities have felt overlooked over the past 15 years

What factors are driving rural poverty in the countryside? And how can the Government turn the tide to help farming communities thrive?

Shrewsbury MP Julia Buckley, a founding member of the Labour Rural Research Group, writes on how farming and rural communities can help shape a new report on rural poverty

Can the political party prove to farmers that it can help businesses grow and unleash the potential of the rural economy if elected?

Rural Scotland has been particularly hard hit by rising food and fuel prices, with MPs calling on Westminster to provide more support for families