Running successful local bus companies
I’m delighted that the Labour Party has announced its Plan for Better Buses.
I’m delighted that the Labour Party has announced its Plan for Better Buses.
The Spring Budget on 6 March was the final chance for this Government to turn around 14 years of economic mismanagement and try to put the British economy back on track.
Only Prime Minister Rishi Sunak knows when he will call the general election that the country desperately needs.
Just days before many councils set their most difficult budgets in years – and many months after the LGA warned that soaring demand for social care and temporary accommodation was posing an existential risk to council budgets – the Government has finally backtracked on its catastrophic provisional local government finance settlement for 2024/25 and announced £600 million in extra funding.
It is shaping up to be a busy year for local government in 2024.
In the first King’s Speech in more than 70 years, the Conservatives showed they do not have a plan to fix the fundamental problems facing the country – they are more interested in saving their own skin.
It was great to meet so many colleagues and friends in Liverpool for this year’s Labour Party conference.
With the next General Election moving closer, Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has used his recent reshuffle to set out a shadow cabinet that is bursting with talent.
It is a huge honour to have been elected as the new Leader of the LGA’s Labour Group.
We are now just days away from the local elections, where voters face a choice at the ballot box over who runs vital local public services.