Steve Reed: “Every young person deserves the best possible start in life. Our planning changes will mean schools can work quickly to…”

British democracy is not for sale.

This Government is driving the most ambitious programme of local government reform in a generation, replacing the inefficient two-tier system with new unitary councils so that all parts of our country are ready for devolution.

There are still some councils that are saying no to the pubs, and my message to those councils is please say yes.

Very, very different from when it happened under the Tories