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The construction industry is falling back yet further, with figures released today showing a 9.1% decrease in construction output over the same per...

Ipswich Spy is having a go at Ipswich MP, Ben Gummer, for not updating his web site with sufficient frequency. “Mr Gummer is, once again, fai...

Three controversial Conservative party donors helped finance Ben Gummer’s successful campaign to win Ipswich, 113 on the Tory target list, at...

Why are ipswich politics so much like a tussle outside a bar at chucking-out time? They seem to scream at each other rather than engage in reasoned...

Why is it that some politicians and commentators, when faced with the financial disaster that is the European economy, put their fingers in their e...

With the jobless figures reaching the highest nationwide since 1994 it was not surprising that Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Ipswich, ...

With Labour run Ipswich Borough Council under fire from Ipswich Town fans for demanding more than half a million pounds back rent, you would think ...

The Law Society are using tactics reminiscent of the worst of New Labour in their fight with the Government over proposals to cut Legal Aid. That i...

The announcement by the Bank of England of £75billion of Quantitive Easing today was greeted with caution by local Ipswich Tory, Ben Gummer MP. Co...

A guest article by Ben Gummer MP A couple of months ago I penned an article for the Times which criticized the Law Society and Bar Council for thei...

Ipswich Spy has noticed rumblings across the blogosphere in the last few days, with complaints about so called “rowdy” behaviour during...

Ipswich Labour Party have chosen Ipswich Borough Council leader, Cllr David Ellesmere, to be their candidate in a future General Election. Ipswich ...

Labour joined forces with Suffolk Coalition Against Cuts to campaign in Ipswich Town Centre about Government proposals to disband the Strategic Hea...

Ipswich Labour Party have drawn up a short list of four candidates to be put to party members on 18th September as it seeks to retake the seat lost...

Ipswich Spy was surprised at the article printed in The Times last week by Ben Gummer MP because it made so many cheap points and appeared to be a ...

Former Transport Minister and ex MP Chris Mole, replaced last year by Tory Ben Gummer MP, is to be made a director of Ipswich Buses by the Labour r...

In an article penned for The Times, Ben Gummer MP has slammed the Government’s critics within the legal profession. Under the heading “...

Further evidence of the unreal world of the Daily Mail today, as (usually sensible) Mail columnist Quentin Letts attacks Ben Gummer for being a Pat...

Ipswich Spy has to laugh at the nerve of the hard left sometimes. Having written here in praise of the anarchist thugs who rioted in London at the ...

This is probably a bit of an obscure area on the immigration debate – particularly as it is the end of the current series, but this is very i...

Another installment on the long, long letter from Ben Gummer on immigration and the coalition’s policies.  This time the focus is on the acc...

As a bit of a background I wrote an email to Ben Gummer a bit before Christmas.  Despite responding months ago, I’ve not put his answers up...

Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman visits Ipswich today as part of Labour’s “blank sheet of paper” policy debate, to meet new me...

Ben Gummer has been in touch with Ipswich Spy to tell us about his new Fore Street office, pictured above. Here is what Mr Gummer had to say: “Th...

There have been comments made, mostly by Labour posters, about the supposed lack of an office in Ipswich. Firstly we had Cllr Ross alleging that th...

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has published details of the expenses claims of our new MPs since May of last year. Ben Gummer cl...

Following hard on the heels of our article last week about the runners and riders for selection to be the Ipswich Labour Party candidate at the nex...

In an offhand comment during the Opposition Day Debate yesterday in Parliament, Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove was a great deal more...

Further to our story earlier in the week about Ben Gummer’s non existent website, we were pointed in the direction of the Ipswich Liberal Dem...

Ben Gummer (Ipswich) has been appointed to the prestigous Justice Select Committee, along with Liz Truss (South West Norfolk), replacing Jessica Le...