ED MILIBAND pledged yesterday that a Labour government would deliver control of £30 billion of funding to local authorities and regions.
The Labour leader endorsed key features of a policy review by Lord Adonis aimed at tackling chronic regional imbalances and boosting business.
Over £30bn of funding would be devolved to existing local authorities, new combined authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships during the five-year term of a Labour government.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Wales is second from the bottom in terms of cultural services in the EU. HELEDD FYCHAN believes that needs to change if the country is to prosper
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES


