520 Westminster City Council staff have been told that they are 'vulnerable' to redundancy, according to a letter sent to all Council staff by Council Chief Executive, Mike More. The letter warns staff that "up to 300 staff" will be made redundant "over the next year". The Council has earmaked £10 million to pay the redundancy costs. Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Leader of the Labour Group, said: "This is very bad news for Council staff and Westminster residents. Fewer staff mean worse services. And the £10 million cost of this massive redundancy package is huge bill for Westminster residents to pay." "Once again, Westminster residents and Council staff are paying the price of the Conservatives' reckless £17 million investment in now-failed Icelandic Banks...
Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today pledged Labour candidates to the highest standards of integrity, accountability, and prudence with public money. 100 of Labour's young candidates and activists joined Gordon Brown at Labour HQ to sign up to an eight point promise that they will put the public's interest first. Gordon Brown said: "The first thing we've got to do is to clean up politics once and for all. We've got to make sure that people see that their Members of Parliament and those who seek to represent them are acting in the public interest and not in their self interest. "We've got to make sure that people see that their politicians are in it not for what they can get, but for what they can give. That's why today we promise that we will uphold the highest standards of integrity, we promise that there will be transparency in everything we do, we promise that we will report to our constituents and do so as regularly as possible...