If the Labour leadership listens, it can learn from the party in local government
It is right that local government has featured prominently in the Labour leadership debate. All four candidates are…
Local government
23 council leaders pen statement endorsing Caroline Flint
The leaders of 23 Labour councils have publicly endorsed Caroline Flint’s campaign for deputy leader today. In a…
Burnham has a plan for the biggest shift from Westminster to councils in a generation
This article is co-authored by 12 Labour group leaders, listed below. Andy Burnham’s speech last week on A New…
Leadership candidates set out devolution plans
Labour leadership candidates will today flesh out their plans for devolution at a hustings in front of the…
We must stop this brutal attack on local government
The Government’s new education bill is the latest salvo in its unrelenting, yet misguided, attack on our local…
Despite what Pickles thinks, the public values council services
Yesterday, the Liverpool Echo launched its manifesto for the general election. It’s a compilation of the key issues…
Give the people what they want: Labour’s devolvers and the desire to give power away
The time has come to give people what they want – power over their own lives and their…
Labour will review the impact of the Coalition’s squeeze of local communities
By Andy Sawford MP and Stephen Timms MP Five years ago the Conservative Party were keen to brandish their…
Osborne has chosen short term political gimmicks over a long term economic plan at every turn
George Osborne has insisted his pre-election Budget would contain “no gimmicks” – we’ll see. What we can be…
Continuing on the current path of local government cuts will damage families, communities, and the NHS
In late 2009 John Denham, the then Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government…
