LGA Labour Articles

While attention is rightly focused on Scotland at the moment, a few rumblings over the future of devolution in England have been occurring and look likely to increase in volume after this week. A discussion about localism has barely started - a couple of reports...

The general election is now less than eight months away and as the political battlelines are being drawn Labour is defining a new message: gaining power to give it away. The period since the last general election has been interesting. With unprecedented cuts targeted...

Good public services are at the heart of any progressive strategy for a socially just future. Yet they are facing significant challenges to the impact they can have: demand pressures are growing while resources are diminishing. Without reform they will become...

The challenges Labour in local government has faced in recent years mirror those the next Labour government would have to deal with from day one. Being in power requires hard choices. To govern in these times is to walk the narrow path between reducing resources and...