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Jeremy Corbyn met with Labour leaders Cllr Judith
Blake, Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe and Cllr Peter Box in Leeds to discuss their
plans for transport in West Yorkshire.
Jeremy and other Shadow Cabinet members will be campaigning
in key local election seats this weekend as part of Labour’s Action Saturday –
join them by signing up to find your nearest key seat.
Stevenage Borough Council has appointed a developer to
undertake the first phase of an exciting and ambitious £350m programme
of town centre regeneration, with construction expected to start next year.
Councils in the North East now have half a billion pounds less to spend
than when the Tories came to power.
Labour leaders
and mayors representing Core Cities UK, the 10 UK cities at the heart of the
biggest urban areas outside London, met with EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Monday.
Islington Council
launched its ‘Fair Futures’ Commission report – you can read the recommendations here.
Congratulations to Cllr Iain Malcolm, leader of South
Tyneside Council, who has been elected as the new LGA Labour Group regional
representative for the North East.
Welsh Labour councils are benefiting from investment in
roads – with Flintshire receiving almost £1.5m extra to tackle
potholes.
The contest to be deputy leader of Welsh Labour will be
between Carolyn Harris MP and Julie Morgan AM after both secured the required
nominations.
Andrew Gwynne responds
to news that Government is sending in a commissioner to
Buckinghamshire County
Council.
Labour commits to
sprinklers in all new school buildings.
Angela Eagle on LGBT History Month.
The increase in child poverty is a direct result of this Government’s
utter failure – Margaret Greenwood.
LGA responds
to gambling advertising crackdown
Blue Badge
thefts quadrupled in five years
LGA responds
to Which? report on product safety
LGA responds to
UK live music census
More than
423,000 homes with planning permission waiting to be built
Half of
children in need referred to councils experience domestic violence
Tory housing
minister was member of private Facebook group that called for workhouses for the poor and an end
to all council housing.
Tory Westminster Council has fined its own housing department for
behaving as a rogue landlord.
By-election results from 8 February 2018
York UA,
Holgate
Lab 1521 [50.0%; +22.6%]
LD 982 [32.3%; +19.5%]
Con 334 [11.0%; -8.0%]
Green 203 [6.7%; -9.3%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -11.6%]]
Ind 0 [[0.0%; -9.1%]]
Left 0 [[0.0%; -4.1%]]
Labour hold
West
Oxfordshire DC, Carterton South
Con 388 [66.1%; +4.6%]
LD 146 [24.9%; +18.9%]
Lab 53 [9.0%; -2.4%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -15.4%]]
Green 0 [[0.0%; -5.6%]]
Conservative hold
Tendring
DC, St Paul’s
Con 378 [39.5%; +6.7%]
Ind 160 [16.7%; +16.7%]
Ind 134 [14.0%; +14.0%]
Lab 114 [11.9%; +11.9%]
LD 79 [8.3%; +8.3%]
UKIP 71 [7.4%; -29.6%]
Greens 20 [2.1%; +2.1%]
Tendring First 0 [[0.0%; -30.1%]]
Conservative gain from UKIP
Teignbridge
DC, Dawlish Central & North East
LD 1286 [70.6%; +47.5%]
Con 535 [29.4%; -0.7%]
Ind 0 [[0.0%; -16.8%]]
Green 0 [[0.0%; -15.3%]]
Lab 0 [[0.0%; -14.7%]]
Lib Dem gain from Conservative
Teignbridge
DC, Chudleigh
LD 575 [41.0%; +28.3%]
Con 564 [40.3%; +7.4%]
Lab 262 [18.7%; +3.7%]
Ind 0 [[0.0%; -24.7%]]
Green 0 [[0.0%; -14.7%]]
Lib Dem gain from Conservative
North
Norfolk DC, Worstead
LD 509 [72.7%; +39.4%]
Con 118 [16.9%; -25.0%]
Lab 73 [10.4%; -1.8%]
Green 0 [[0.0%; -12.6%]]
Lib Dem gain from Conservative
North
East Derbyshire DC, Grassmoor
Lab 459 [48.9%; -10.3%]
Con 368 [39.2%; +22.1%]
LD 111 [11.8%; +11.8%]
Labour hold
Northamptonshire
CC, Higham Ferrers
Con 1,414 [56.6%; -3.5%]
Lab 557 [22.3%; +3.5%]
LD 336 [13.5%; +2.3%]
UKIP 109 [[4.4%; -5.5%]]
Grn 81 [[3.2%; +3.2%]]
Conservative hold
Lancashire
CC, Morecambe North
Con 1,332 [49.0%; -14.2%]
LD 809 [29.7%; +21.6%]
Lab 580 [21.3%; -0.7%]
Grn 0 [[0.0%; -6.6%]]
Conservative hold
Halton
UA, Halton Castle
Lab 522 [70.3%; -5.8%]
Ind 133 [17.9%; +9.5%]
Con 88 [11.8%; +11.8%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -15.5%]]
Labour hold
Epsom
& Ewell BC, Ruxley
Resident’s Association 398 [37.2%; -7.4%]
Con 340 [31.8%; -0.6%]
Lab 264 [24.7%; +10.5%]
LD 67 [6.3%; -2.5%
Resident Association hold
East
Northamptonshire DC, Higham Ferrers Lancaster
Con 611 [55.6%]
LD 244 [22.2%]
Lab 189 [17.2%]
Grn 33 [3.0%]
UKIP 22 [2.0%]
Conservative hold
Doncaster
MB, Armthorpe
Lab 1431 [75.4%; +34.8%]
Ind 466 [24.6%; +24.6%]
UKIP 0 [[0.0%; -28.7%]]
Con 0 [[0.0%; -21.6%]]
Green 0 [[0.0%; -9.0%]]
Labour hold
By-elections taking place on
22 February 2018
Wigan MB, Bryn
West Somerset DC,
Minehead South
Torfaen UA,
Trevethin
Hertfordshire CC,
Goffs Oak & Bury Green
Arun DC, Marine
Chichester DC,
Fishbourne
Boston BC, Old
Leake & Wrangle
Lichfield DC,
Stowe
West Dorset DC,
Bridport North
Dorset CC,
Bridport
North Kesteven
DC, Eagle, Swinderby & Witham St Hughs
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