It’s not just HDV – Labour councils are gentrifying up and down the UK
Stratford and Newham are just the most blatant examples of a Labour council displacing old working class communities.
Stratford and Newham are just the most blatant examples of a Labour council displacing old working class communities.
In one London borough 1 in 25 people are homeless. It’s a crisis the government did nothing to stop.
Green Party’s Caroline Russell says dump ‘toxic’ plans and listen to Londoners
Councils are much closer to the ground than HMRC could ever be – they know local businesses, both good and bad
In Ed Miliband’s speech on social security yesterday, he set out a number of ways in which the present system pays for failure: having too many people in long-term unemployment; subsidising low paid work; subsidising rents rather than building homes; and not recognising contribution.
In a speech today at Newham Dockside, Ed Miliband will tackle head on the attempts to brand Labour the party of welfare, and will say that controlling social security spending and putting decent values at the heart of the system are “not conflicting priorities”.
Sir Robin Wales, the directly elected Labour Mayor of the London Borough of Newham, asks how ministers at the DCLG are held to account for misleading the public.