Labour council leaders have written to the Prime Minister criticising the Tories’ unravelling Stronger Towns announcement and calling for more funding in next week’s Spring Statement. Following the Tories announcement on Tuesday (5 March), 64 Labour council leaders...
Labour reveals that Theresa May’s “Towns Fund” bribe is £5.7 billion short of the cuts the Tories have inflicted on local councils across the country. Councils will see a cut of £7.3 billion this decade as a result of nine years of austerity under the Tories. The...
Andrew Gwynne, Labour’s Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, has announced that under a future Labour Government, local councillors have a direct voice in central government’s decision making. In a speech to the Local Government Association conference in...
No new money, no new ideas and no recognition of the dire situation facing councils – that is the reality of the Tories’ new local government settlement, which MPs are voting on today. Unless Tory ministers change tack, more elderly people will go without proper...
Speech delivered to the Annual LGA Local Government Finance Conference, 8 January, 2019. It’s my pleasure to come to come to speak to you as we welcome in the new year. Firstly, a thank you – over the past eight years, despite the funding pressures, and despite...
Denton and Reddish MP, Andrew Gwynne, joined a collection of local authority leaders and representatives today to hand an anti-austerity petition signed by over 5,000 Labour councillors to Downing Street. The ‘Breaking Point’ petition is now the most-signed petition...
