Soaring mortgage costs may win Labour more votes than its housing policies
Labour goes on the offensive today over housing, releasing new analysis suggesting children born this year have a one-in-three…
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Local elections: Should Labour be talking more about council issues?
Another UK poll has Labour’s lead narrowing today, down to 15 points, though that was before the fallout from…
A social rent freeze not entirely funded by the Treasury could be self-defeating
Salford has just submitted its response to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ consultation on a…
As millions choose between heating and eating, the time for a rent freeze is now
Whilst there has been much talk about the ‘cost-of-living crisis’ one of its key components, rent, has yet…
Pay more, get less – the Conservative plan for council tax payers in 2021
When you’re down, the first thing you need to do is get back on your feet. Our country…
UK Labour must reinvent itself. Local councils have already started
Labour must reinvent itself as a party of opposition. Foundations are already being laid nationally. In this, the…
Keir Starmer must articulate his view of democratic socialism
There are many in the Labour Party who are concerned that Keir Starmer has yet to articulate any…
How local government has responded to Covid-19 – and what it means financially
Each day this week I’ve written about a different element of the local government response to Covid-19. Whilst…
Yvonne Fovargue: Children’s services need more than a sticking plaster
Despite the severe and urgent crisis facing our councils, the government continues to cut budgets. The local government…
Labour councils are reinventing municipal socialism and trying to hold back austerity
If we are to prepare for power nationally then we should do more to crowdsource solutions to modern…
