Leadership candidates set out devolution plans
Labour leadership candidates will today flesh out their plans for devolution at a hustings in front of the…
Local government
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…
Anti-business? The reality is that, locally, Labour councils are making business work
A flurry of very rich individuals raise fears that a Labour is anti-business. There must be a general election soon.…
Labour Local Government – time to come out of the shadows
The last four years have been testing times for Labour councillors. Along with the Police and Fire service…
Whitehall needs to butt out if we’re going to really change Britain for the better
I wrote recently about how councils have largely coped well with massive cuts from the Tory-led Government, but…
