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Illegal budgets would set Labour back Jeremy Corbyn was absolutely right to discourage illegal budget-setting at the end of last year, shortly after local activists had called on councils to do just that. Here in Lambeth we have come a long way since the 1980s and the...

As the leader of a council that has seen its budget cut by 56 per cent since 2010, it was astonishing to see the prime minister criticising his own Conservative council in Oxfordshire for making cuts to services. David Cameron genuinely seems to believe his own...

David Cameron has made a pig's ear of it again. A leaked letter that he is pressuring his local council to resist the worst implications of George Osborne's cuts is either confirmation that Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity politics is catching on or that the prime...

When George Osborne stands up for the autumn statement on 25 November, remember this figure: £60bn. Why? Because that is his deficit. Not the budget gap caused by the global financial crisis. Not the deficit he says he inherited. That is the Osborne deficit. According...