Tonbridge's Labour candidates ready to deliver change
Labour came in second in Tonbridge in 2024. Help us win in 2025 at the upcoming Kent County Council (KCC) elections on 1 May 2025.
Tonbridge, have you met your Labour candidates for Kent County Council?
21 April 2025
Introducing Callum Lake and Catherine Tuke, standing for a better future for our town and Kent next Thursday, 1 May.
Callum is a public servant working in health policy. He moved to Kent for his studies and settled in Tonbridge, where he lives with his partner in South Tonbridge.
Catherine is a former Sevenoaks District Council Labour councillor and a longtime Kent resident.
Since the election was called, they have spoken to and heard from 500 residents from across Tonbridge, supported by a team of local volunteers from the local Labour Party.
Tonbridge Labour Party is proud of our town, just like every person we’ve spoken to on the doorstep these past few months. But Tonbridge faces significant challenges around housing, children’s services and transport, and our neighbours agree.
Your Labour candidates will:
Build new homes by prioritising families over fields. Tonbridge’s current elected councillors consistently vote against new developments.
Support children with special educational needs and disabilities. Your council is failing these families, and Labour would campaign against this injustice.
Fix local roads and promote more cycling. We’ll work with government to access fast-track funds to fix Tonbridge’s local roads.
Tonbridge Labour Party stands for real local change:
Homes and services for the next generation
Parents of teenagers are worried about the lack of affordable housing and rents in and around Tonbridge. Adult children can’t afford to move out.
All of them - parents and young people - want to see many more affordable houses built near where they live. They don’t want to see young people pushed out of their own communities.
Tonbridge’s current elected councillors prioritise fields over families by consistently voting against new developments.
Tonbridge Labour Party will vote for new housing and transport infrastructure, bringing hope, new local jobs and prosperity to Tonbridge.
Supporting children with special needs
Kent’s special educational needs and disability support is in crisis. Kent County Council’s leaders have their head in the sand and are failing children and families.
For many parents of children with special needs, the only option send vulnerable children daily on a 30-mile round trip to special schools across the county, instead of accessing local ones.
Your council is failing these families, and your local Labour candidates would campaign against this injustice.
Getting Tonbridge's roads fixed
Nothing has united Tonbridge more than its hate for potholes. With Labour at the helm of Kent County Council, we would work with the national Labour government to access new funding to fast-track local roadworks.
We would also prioritise the construction of safe cycle routes.
In the 2024 General Election, Labour came 2nd in Tonbridge. If we unite around Labour this time, it will be impossible for the Tories to win again.
In this election you can do more than hope for change, you can vote for it! Tonbridge Labour Party has positive vision for our town, focused on a council delivering for our community.
Together with your help, we will ensure we can create a town which we can all be proud of long into the future.
Promoted by Jane Pover, 1 St Mary’s Close, Sevenoaks, TN15 8NH on behalf of the Labour Party.
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