The shadow chancellor has set out the potential next government’s spending agenda, and shown off an endorsement from a former Bank of England governor.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has pledged to use a “proper” windfall tax to fund council tax freezes for households in England next year if the party is elected.
A Labour government would create a national wealth fund to invest in renewable energy to help create a “greener, fairer Britain” – one of several announcements made by senior party figures including...
A future Labour government would replace non-domestic rates with a fairer system to ease the burden on smaller high street firms, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced.
Vivienne Russell reminds us what happened in Liverpool in 1985 when the city council tried to set an illegal budget after Labour’s Dawn Butler recently revived memories of the row.
Local authority finances were unusually high up the agenda at the Labour conference this year but councils remain in a state of flux until the government realises the system of funding them needs...
Labour would bring in a new tax on holiday homes and set up a national housing department, the party’s shadow housing secretary has told its annual conference.
A new economic model for the regions would help the Labour Party make “a fundamentally better offer” to voters, according to local government and devolution spokesman Jim McMahon.
