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We have postponed our Internal Elections and LGA Appointments
process until after the General Election. We will begin all processes on 9
June 2017.
Self-nomination for elections will close on 16 June
2017. Ballot papers will be sent out to Group Leaders on 19 June 2017 and will
close on 30 June 2017.
The deadline for self-nomination forms for LGA
Appointments will close 3 July 2017. If you are away during the submission
period, please ask a colleague or your political group office to send your
completed form in on your behalf.
Please email anthie.zachariou@local.gov.uk if you have any questions.
Please
find the Labour Party Manifesto 2017 here and Alice Perry’s NEC
Report here
Out on the campaign trail? Send us
your best photos and they may appear in the Labour Group Annual Report. They
need to be high resolution and you’ll need to tell us who is in the photo and
give confirmation that everyone pictured is happy for us to use it. Please send them to anthie.zachariou@local.gov.uk
Newcastle has been named the best place to raise a
family
Manchester City Council-backed production facility in discussions about further
extending the studio complex
Leeds City Council transport bosses vow to implement major
overhaul
Islington Council to ditch firms who don’t pay corporation
tax
Barnsley Council’s Property
Investment Fund lures health manufacturer into new offices
Southampton City Council has approved
plans to renovate a pub into The Southampton Triratna Buddhist Centre
Oldham Council has
launched its annual Bloom and Grow campaign
Wolverhampton’s first city centre food festival hopes to attract
10,000 visitors
London
Boulevard: Could 1.9 mile "scar across
London" become a capital cycling icon?
Labour manifesto at-a-glance: Key points at-a-glance
Conservative manifesto summary: Key points at-a-glance
Liberal Democrat manifesto summary: Key points at-a-glance
Rhodri Morgan:
Tributes to Wales' former first minister
Conservatives
climbdown
over 'dementia tax' after backlash
Tory social care plans will leave people helpless, says former Advisor
Andre Dilnot, as new warnings over plans surface
Theresa May’s school
lunch cut ‘would hit 900,000 children of struggling families’
UK needs more immigrants to 'avoid Brexit
catastrophe'
Dementia and cancer deaths set to soar in England and Wales
Instagram 'worst for young mental health'
38,000 people a year die early because of diesel emissions
testing failures
Air pollution in Britain worse than Mexico, World Health
Organisation finds (£)
Unauthorised
term-time holidays soar in England after legal challenge
One in eight London
retailers selling illegal tobacco (£)
Recycling body
criticises Pringles and Lucozade packaging
The new
leader of Cardiff Council, Cllr Huw Thomas, speaks about his plans for the city
Swansea
Council could start running its own buses to compete against First
Cymru
Flint town
centre housing and health plans on show
Jeremy
Corbyn’s speech at the
launch of The Labour Party Manifesto 2017
Jeremy Corbyn’s response
to the launch of the Conservative manifesto
McDonnell and Trickett attack Tories’ “sick
and sneaky” pensioner plans
Labour’s pledges
to pensioners
You can’t trust the
Tories’ promises on social care - Barbara Keeley
Labour
brings forward tuition fees pledge
During the General Election period, there are daily press releases.
Please see here to
keep up to date with the latest news.
The Labour party has published eight
consultation documents, including on Housing,
Local Government and Transport and they want to hear from as many
councillors as possible.
The consultation is open until Wednesday
31 May 2017. All the submissions they receive will go to the appropriate policy
commission who will consider your ideas before rewriting the documents ahead of
a summer meeting of the National Policy Forum on the weekend of the 1 & 2
July 2017.
The consultation documents can be found
at www.policyforum.labour.org.uk
The best and easiest way to send in your
ideas and join the discussion is via our online home of policy making: www.policyforum.labour.org.uk
The website also includes details of
your local NPF representatives and your elected officials who are there to
represent you in the Agenda 2020 process.
In light of the
General Election, we’ve been working hard on your behalf with the Labour policy
team who are drafting the manifesto. We have written to them, to set out the
key policy pledges that we want the manifesto to commit to. We have also
published a briefing that sets out the key commitments
we want adopted in order to help all parts of local government better support our
communities and deliver on the challenges facing the nation. If you have any
key figures from the Party in your patch hopefully you'll be able to restate
our lines in your discussions with them.
Theresa May’s social care
system is a lottery. Just hope you’re not unlucky
Furious Tory council leader criticises
his own party over Adult Social Care and Winter Fuel
Payment changes
Government accused of ‘cover up’ over ‘delay’
in publishing NHS deficit trust figures
'Lunch snatcher' Theresa May pledges to
axe free hot meals at infant schools
Theresa May to create new internet that would
be controlled and regulated by Government
The Tories
have quietly torn up their promise to stop cutting welfare
Tory councillor says pregnant Labour candidate can’t be
MP as she’ll be ‘too busy’ changing nappies
UKIP parliamentary candidate
suspended
for sending 'racist' tweets
There
were 2 by-elections on 18 May 2017:
Stockton on Tees, Newton
Labour 483 [52.5%; -12.7%]
Conservative 201 [21.8%; +4.6%]
Ind 193 [21.0%; +21.0%]
LD 43 [4.7%; +4.7%]
[UKIP 0 [0.0%; -15.4%]]
[Libertarian 0 [0.0%; -2.1%]]
Labour Hold
Enfield LB, Enfield Lock
Labour: 63.8% (+12.7)
Conservative: 28.8%(+13.3)
Green: 3.1%(-6.4)
UKIP: 2.7%(-15.0)
Liberal Democrat: 1.6%(+1.6)
Labour Hold
There
is 1 by-elections taking place on 25 May 2017:
Southend UA, Shoeburyness
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