Local Election Results Michael Walker, Dawn Foster and Richard Seymour take a look at the local election results.
‘This is the next big battle’: Haringey Labour and the Future of Local Government Opposition to the Haringey Development Vehicle has continually been met with the old response that ‘there is no alternative’. Local campaigners, however, have radical visions for the future of the borough.
How Can We Make Labour Councils Fight Austerity? The View From Bristol Bristol's mayor, Marvin Rees, has boxed clever on the anti-austerity surge within Labour. Yet the question of how to turn local government into a vehicle to stop cuts - and whether doing so is possible with the Tories in Whitehall - has divided the left.
London Councils Are Failing Migrants Under Section 17 New information obtained through Freedom of Information requests by Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth reveals the devastating inadequacy of housing support provided by London councils, particularly for migrant families.
How Local Authority Debt is Draining Millions from Public Funds Inspired by similar campaigns in Spain, Greece and the global south, Debt Resistance UK has delved into the finances of local government to show how the financial system is siphoning public money into private pockets.