My home town: how Chesterfield changed under Conservative rule

My home town: how Chesterfield changed under Conservative rule

As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, Sunjeev Sahota describes the ‘betrayed, emptied’ Derbyshire town

As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, the Guardian asked three writers to describe how their home towns had changed under Conservative rule – and the challenges now facing Keir Starmer. Today, Sunjeev Sahota describes what has happened to Chesterfield.

I grew up in Chesterfield, which, according to a 2019 analysis by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, is Derbyshire’s second most deprived district (narrowly outpaced by Bolsover). Almost a third of the town’s 69 areas, including the one that raised me, are among the 20% most deprived in the country.

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