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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner in Buckinghamshire, December 5, 2024
LABOUR was accused today of attempting to remove local democratic power from councils amid plans to bypass them in an overhaul of planning rules.
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner wants to give Whitehall officials the power to rubber-stamp development proposals without permission from council committees under proposed reforms to speed up planning applications.
Such a move aims to end delays to new homes, cut time and resources spent on individual schemes and provide more certainty to housebuilders.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down