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Lost in the fog of Labour conference speeches and debates was an important decision that is set to reshape Labour in local government. The reform package that our party agreed this week pave the way to bring in more women councillors and…
I no longer believe London has a housing crisis – this city now faces a full scale housing emergency and action on an unprecedented scale is urgently required. London has failed to build enough new homes for years with the result that rises…
In late 2009 John Denham, the then Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), asked Sir Richard Leese and myself to co-chair a group tasked with developing proposals “to promote organisational and…
The Government’s welfare reforms have been hailed as the “greatest since Beveridge” by Iain Duncan Smith. But a recent Crisis report has warned that the reforms already in place are increasing homelessness and the changes later this year…
It’s widely acknowledged that London is in the middle of a housing crisis. An increasing population and a lack of new development means we have a sizable gap between those needing to find a home and those that are available. In the first…
Local government has born the brunt of this government’s cuts. For those of us elected in 2010, we are now half way through the political cycle and preparing to build towards 2014. For others, local elections are already just around the…
