Westminster City Council leader, Cllr Colin Barrow, has made an impassioned call to ‘overcome the enemies of localism’ found in Whitehall and town hall alike, and accelerate the drive to community budgets.
Addressing the LGA’s annual conference in Birmingham, Cllr Barrow expressed concern over the coalition’s lack of progress to date, saying it was no time to ‘throw away the toolbox’ of past governments to drive forward new rights and powers to improve services.
