Salford MP and Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long Bailey has given her vision for the future of local Government to Labour members.

Writing for Labour List, she told the party that:

“We need a compelling vision for local government ahead of the next election – one that involves devolving genuine power to local levels of government and, crucially, the funding to make it real.”

Attacking spending cuts since 2010 she says thstlocal communities have been robbed of their communal spaces such as libraries, swimming pools, green spaces, playgrounds and parks.

Local councils, she adds, need to be free and to have the resources to undertake large-scale council house building, to hold property developers to account on contributing to local infrastructure and affordable housing and stop land banking.

”And local councils should have the power and resources to deliver on insulating homes and developing local energy schemes.”

Finally she promises to work with local councils to put a new generation of municipal services at the heart of our promise to transform our country at the next general election: expanding and integrating local public transport; bringing in local democratic control of schools; providing public health and youth services; establishing services for active-living and combatting loneliness; providing social care and services for independent living.

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