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A general View of Liverpool Town Hall, Castle Street, Liverpool
LABOUR councillors in Liverpool have been suspended from the party for opposing huge spending cuts in the council’s proposed budget.
Their suspension followed a declaration by Cllrs Alan Gibbons, Alison Clarke, Alfie Hincks, Rona Heron, Joanne Calvert and Lindsay Melia that they would vote against £10.7 million in cuts — including in social care, the council’s biggest area of spending.
The budget includes the introduction of charges for green bin waste collection and a maximum council tax rise of 2.99 per cent.
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
‘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