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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...

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

A by election will be held in Ipswich to replace the Conservative Sarah Stokes, who resigned spectacularly at the beginning of the month, making al...

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 ...

Ipswich Spy was frustrated at being sworn to secrecy about this, but we can now confirm that Cllr Sarah Stokes has stepped down from Ipswich Boroug...

Following up on our article on Saturday, Suffolk County Council has revealed that 4 full time staff are employed on behalf of the unions – si...

Ipswich Tory Ben Gummer MP has hit out at news that Ipswich Borough Council subsidises a union office to the tune of £20,000 in an article in the ...

Everyone who Ipswich Spy has spoken to or heard talking about the riots would agree on one thing – there is no excuse for violent disorder an...

David Cameron is in trouble. Not for failing to show leadership in a policing situation where the mindless thugs and criminals have rampaged throug...

Ipswich has 48 Borough Councillors and 13 County Councillors. The Borough Council is considered the more important organisation by Ipswich politico...

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...

Labour have announced that they have begun the selection process for a candidate to stand in the next Parliamentary election here in Ipswich, one o...

Tomorrow Ipswich goes to the polls with control of the Borough Council very much in the balance. Ipswich Borough Council has been under No Overall ...

Preston North End begin looking ahead to next season today when they face Ipswich. After the loss…

Labour have produced a 10 page manifesto for the Borough Council campaign. We have had a brief look through it, and it is full of nice words aimed ...

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

After watching the Tories at Suffolk County Council vote to cut the school crossing patrol officers and close three libraries in Ipswich, the Labou...

In Sprites Ward in Ipswich, the local Labour councillors have done a street survey of every pothole in the ward and reported their findings to the ...

For the last few weeks Labour have been pushing thousands of leaflets throughout Ipswich decrying the closure of Rosehill and Westbourne Libraries....

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...

Labour have recently put an article on their website which echoes the blogpost from Alasdair Ross which was published on 5th February. This is rath...

That is the message from Ipswich Liberal Democrats, who have broken what looked like it could become 9 months of silence on their website, to publi...

Labour’s Ed Balls has been lined up to lead the Labour campaign for the local government elections in the East of England, a move certain to ...

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...

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...

Ipswich Borough Council and Suffolk County Council are going to have to make huge cuts in the forthcoming year, indeed many of these cuts are alrea...

Ipswich is a funny seat for the Liberal Democrats. They hold Colchester, and half of Norwich, but Ipswich has remained elusive. Maybe it’s be...