News from London Assembly Labour

Local Government excluded from ‘Big Society’ launch

Responding to Cameron-Clegg’s Big Society speech today, Sir Jeremy Beecham, Leader of the LGA Labour Group said:

“The Tory-Lib Dem coalition has effectively bypassed local government in today’s Big Society Launch. Whilst announcing that councils would be given a general power of competence, it’s striking that no representative of the LGA was invited to No 10 alongside representatives of voluntary and community groups.

“The fact that Messrs Cameron and Clegg have chosen to exclude local councils from what they regard as a major policy launch, however flawed, is a very worrying signal of their attitude to local government.”

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