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• Change for local government can’t come soon enough

  16-06-2024 15:30
  
  Fourteen years of Conservative governments have left council finances in disarray, forcing them to make cuts to vital services, says the head of the UK’s largest union today (Sunday).
  UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea was making the remarks earlier in a speech to open the union’s annual local government conference. The event takes place in Brighton today and tomorrow.
  Christina McAnea told delegates: “Change can’t come soon enough. An increasing number o
  
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• Don’t mention it

  16-06-2024 10:15 via publiclibrariesnews.com
  
  EditorialHmmm. It’s been an odd election. Themes which are extremely important to us all such as Brexit and the Environment have had barely a mention. A party to the right of the Conservatives is having the strongest showing of any such party I can remember in a national election. And the main argument appears to be all about taxation rather than the importance of what the taxes are for.The Conservatives commit to “continuing to support” libraries and, in the same Manifesto, pr
  
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