Steve Reed: “My selected option will support devolution most effectively, by creating distinct place-based authorities that are close…”

Trust in politics is at an all-time low. Time and again, people have voted for change, time and again change never came.

By holding overseas donors to tougher standards and requiring candidates to prove where their funding comes from, we are taking world-leading action to protect the integrity of our elections and tackle the threats we face from abroad.

They feel locked out of prosperity, locked out of power, and locked out of the future. So we have to do things differently, but first we have to understand what’s gone wrong.

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.