Spring Budget ‘a missed opportunity’
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.
Councillor Nesil Caliskan
Give councils the respect they deserve
Only Prime Minister Rishi Sunak knows when he will call the general election that the country desperately needs.
An admission of total failure
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.
‘Unprecedented’ costs and pressures on councils
It is shaping up to be a busy year for local government in 2024.
Renters have been let down for too long
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.
Labour is ready to govern
It was great to meet so many colleagues and friends in Liverpool for this year’s Labour Party conference.
Positive changes to shadow cabinet
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.
Making the future local
It is a huge honour to have been elected as the new Leader of the LGA’s Labour Group.
Making a choice on who runs services
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.
Nothing in the Budget for important public services
Due to the revolving door of Chancellors in 2022, Jeremy Hunt’s Budget was the first in 18 months.