Barry Kirby Articles

I am very proud to have been selected as the Labour police and crime commissioner candidate for Gloucestershire. That said, many people, including both the general public and Labour members, are not that enthusiastic about police and crime commissioners – and the...

When people talk about government, Labour representation and the like, they are talking about Westminster members of parliament. When we talk about grass roots, then we are talking about the membership. However there is a breed of people, who deal with the flux of...

Since September we have undergone a change in the Labour party that has not been seen since 1997. We have had a huge spike in membership, with both returning and new members, inspired by the leadership election and the debate that has gone on from it. But the...

On the whole, the role of police and crime commissioner has been a bit of a disaster, driven by a Tory agenda, where they thought that the public would select Tory candidates and that they would control the police force. The public however had a different view as not...