Lowest funded councils join forces to call for ‘levelling up’ funding fix
Some of the lowest paid local authorities in England are calling on the government to provide a £300m temporary injection to their finances.
Some of the lowest paid local authorities in England are calling on the government to provide a £300m temporary injection to their finances.
‘To effect the change we so urgently need, local authorities must embed zero carbon approaches to managing, funding, procuring, commissioning and delivering services but they need the sufficient resources to do this.’
The UK ‘needs to follow international examples’ and invest to ensure ballots are run safely.
‘It is absolutely vital to have a functioning test, track and trace system if we’re to get out of this pandemic safely’
Picture presented “plays fast and loose” with the facts, notes Kevin Courtney.
Housing campaigners and landlord associations alike fear the move will lead to a “postcode lottery” for ailing private renters.
The Labour leader played a very clever hand in PMQs today, by honing in on an issue Tory MPs know little about.
A report showing how the scheme will fail in the next five years did not come as a surprise. The end of council housing was the plan all along.
From growing homelessness and social housing waiting lists to dropping house building, the Tories have utterly failed to address the housing crisis.
The PM thinks she can get away with blaming local authorities for the lack of house building in the UK, totally ignoring the facts.