Labour is abandoning our city.

Full statement

This is the 6th local council by-election in Brighton & Hove in two years, all of which have been caused by resignations of Labour councillors. This is the 2nd in Queen’s Park alone, with both Labour councillors elected in 2023 now having stepped down. Voters across the country are abandoning Labour, and in Queen’s Park we’ve already been hearing on the doorstep that people are putting their trust in us as the only bold and necessary alternative.

Marina and the Green Party will be fighting this election to work hard, speak up and get things done for our communities, which have been let down by a Labour-run council that refuses to speak out for our city or stand up to Keir Starmer’s shameful leadership. Whilst Labour councillors are too scared to challenge their own government, Greens will never stop speaking up for local people.

Marina, who works as a teacher and researcher, lives locally and has worked in the ward. Marina is an active campaigner, having fought previously for housing and land reform, as well as supporting neurodiverse communities and charities.

Labour have shown they cannot be trusted to put the people of Brighton & Hove first. The Green Party are the only party offering a real answer: introduce a wealth tax on the top 1% and take on destructive corporations like Southern Water so that we can invest in a city that ordinary people can actually afford.

Marina will speak up for every resident, fight for improvements to basics such as bin collections, social housing, and playgrounds, push back against Brighton College’s endless expansion, call for rent controls to bring down spiralling rents, demand action on protecting trans and disabled rights and an end to complicity in genocide.