Local
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Proud to lead our district: entering my fifth year as council leader
Last night Stroud District Council held its AGM, I am very honoured to have been elected as council leader for the fifth time. I am proud to be part of such a great Labour & Cooperative team of councillors, and also part of the Labour-Green-Liberal Democrat Cooperative Alliance. The work we do has been reflected […]
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“A budget of partnership and collaboration: my speech to Council”
I am proud to be presenting my fifth budget as leader of this council. As we come into the tenth year of the cooperative alliance of Labour and Cooperative, Green and Liberal Democrat, we have kept the council’s finances in good order. We have gained extra funding as we deliver on an election promise of […]
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Proud of all our Labour group achievements for 2021
This year we held local elections for our district, and renewed the council’s Cooperative alliance with our Green and Liberal Democrat colleagues. Here are some headlines of what your district council has done since the start of 2021. We kept essential services going throughout the pandemic, as well as targeting support for people and businesses […]
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Getting ready for the pandemic: Amplify Stroud interview
Amplify Stroud interviewed me on 30 March 2020 as the pandemic just started to hit us, about preparations the District Council was making. “The priority is to keep essential services running …. everyone is coming together now to work collectively on what is needed…. We all need to work together … Key is that our […]
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Labour needs radical ideas to solve the housing crisis
Here is the article I wrote for Labour List in April 2018 https://labourlist.org/2018/04/labour-needs-radical-ideas-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-so-lets-scrap-right-to-buy/ We have a housing crisis in this country that can only be solved by local government building more. Labour’s 2017 manifesto promised to build 100,000 council homes to ‘rent or buy’. It called for a ‘pause’ to the right to buy, and […]
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Councillors against austerity
This letter was written by Labour, Green and Lib Dem councillors who form the administration of Stroud District Council in Gloucestershire. Our council is about to face the harshest cuts in the county. This is the text of our letter, with details of how we will be affected. Please do share with us how your […]