Welcome to Chester Labour Party and our website. We hope you find this site informative and useful .

If you'd like to send us a comment in relation to the site itself - ideas for adding new features, clarifications to stories we've published, broken links etc. - please use the comments box at the bottom of this page.

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If you need to contact our MP Christine Russell or any of our Councillors, please go to our Contact Labour people page. Useful telephone numbers can be found on our Useful contacts page. If you'd like to see what we look like (not quite like meeting us in person, but almost!), please go to our Elected Labour members photo gallery page. Our general Photo gallery on different subjects around and about Chester can be found here.

Please also remember to read our Disclaimer. This can be found here.

And please remember that this site is for the benefit of all Cestrians - Chester is a tolerant and forward-looking city. Under Labour, let's keep it that way.

A little bit of history

Labour has only been in government for four short periods of the 20th century. However its achievements have revolutionised the lives of the British people. The values Labour stands for today are those which have guided it throughout its existence: social justice, strong community and strong values, reward for hard work, decency and rights matched by responsibilities.

In a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect

In 1995 we set out our values in Clause IV of the Labour Party’s constitution:

"The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few, where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe, and where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect."

Those democratic values have guided us through ten years in government: everything from the large canvas of economic stability, full employment and record investment in public services, to the fine detail of the minimum wage, free museum entry and civil partnerships.

Real people and real lives

What makes us different from other political parties? Well, we believe in society, we believe in supporting and helping each other in times of need, we believe in promoting solidarity, tolerance and respect.

We believe in the human side of politics - helping real people make a go of real lives.

That's what makes us different.

If you'd like to find out more about the Labour Party and what we can offer you, your family and friends, go to our For your eyes only feature. This can be found here. On this page, we explain the advantages of being a Labour Party member, how you can meet thousands of other members just like yourself in our astonishing new online community, the Members Net community - and how you can help achieve what we are all looking for: a better Britain for all.

A new Labour for Britain.

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