“Councils will be at the top table” – Keir Starmer’s LGA Labour conference speech
Below is the full text of the speech delivered to the LGA Labour conference 2022 by party leader…
Devolution
Metro mayors provide “living examples of Labour in power”, Starmer says
Keir Starmer has declared while the party rightly points to its record in government as proof of what…
Glasgow Labour activists: “Being the biggest party is a reasonable ambition”
“We’ve got realistic ambitions to be the largest party,” leader of the Labour group on Glasgow City Council…
Tracy Brabin urges shadow cabinet to learn from Labour-run mayoral regions
Tracy Brabin has urged her colleagues in the shadow cabinet to visit West Yorkshire and other Labour-run mayoral…
Rethinking Labour’s statecraft: how could the party govern for change?
The combination of Boris Johnson’s remarkable, entirely self-inflicted political disasters and a revitalised opposition frontbench have brought about…
What is radical federalism, what would it look like and should Labour back it?
What is radical federalism, what would it look like and should Labour champion it? This is what Scottish Labour leader…
Burnham: I would return to parliament only to champion English devolution
Andy Burnham told a parliamentary committee this morning that if the Greater Manchester mayor were ever to return…
By devolving the arts, Labour can offer a powerful alternative to Tory tokenism
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden last week provoked a new front in the ‘culture war’, proposing that national arts,…
We need our own Welsh constitutional convention – a people’s convention
Our RightWhen Bob Dylan sang “don’t speak too soon for the wheel is still in spin, for the…
What we learnt from the English Labour Network conference
Calls for a devolution have picked up pace over the last year. Demands for a new settlement have…
