Jane Edbrooke Articles

A few years ago I wrote about the evolving role of backbench councillors as community leaders. Here in Lambeth I hoped that the cooperative council, model which we were embarking on, would provide space for councillors to take on a greater place shaping role in their...

I strongly welcome Yvette Cooper’s speech on domestic violence today. I am proud to represent a party that is prepared to give this issue the attention it deserves and requires. This government is clearly not doing enough to tackle this growing problem. Figures...

I first stumbled upon local government and councillors, not through my undergraduate degree in government at the LSE, but through temping at Hammersmith and Fulham council when I couldn’t get my dream job – working for an MP – after I graduated. Until that point, I...