Labour can beat Reform UK by fixing local government

Labour can beat Reform UK by fixing local government

Gavin Callaghan is a Labour councillor and leader of Basildon Council This year’s Labour Party Conference might have been branded by some in the media as “depressive”. From a local government perspective, it was anything but. Instead it was refreshingly radical. We are constantly told that nothing works, that the system is broken and needs to be ripped up and started again. The people attracted to Reform are not looking for tinkering around the …