Budget 2024: ‘Local growth funding is about to run out – this is why we should extend it’
One of the challenges of an incoming government is to deal with rapidly approaching cliff edges for funding.…
Local councils
New LGA and Labour group chairs after Davies and Caliskan become MPs
Leadership vacancies in the Local Government Association (LGA) have now been filled after leading members were elected to…
2024 local election results on Friday: Labour wins key councils and new mayors despite Tees and Gaza troubles
***This live-blog of Friday’s results is now closed. We’re posting the latest results, updates, reaction and analysis on…
‘Nottingham faces unprecedented cuts by government diktat – this is not local democracy’
When Nottingham City Council announced it was issuing a Section 114 notice in November last year, there was…
‘If Labour can’t spend more, here’s how we spend better to fix council budgets’
On Monday, Angela Rayner described the government’s announcement of £600m of new emergency local authority funding as a…
‘How Labour and Co-operative councils are taking a stand on tax avoidance’
This week is Fair Tax Week 2023, where businesses and organisations around the UK highlight the importance of…
Labour today: Burnham sees red, NEC grabs Birmingham, Keir tackles nimbies
Good morning. It’s a busy day too, so we thought we’d try out a slightly different format for…
Councils are more than a litmus test for Westminster. But they need new powers
With just over a year to go until a general election, commentators will be looking to make political…
Local elections 2023: Polls open in major test of Labour’s progress under Starmer
Voters across England are heading to the polls today for the 2023 local elections, in one of the…
Private schools depriving local councils of £144m per year, research finds
Research, published as Keir Starmer reaffirmed that Labour plans to scrap private schools’ exemption from VAT, has found…
