Southampton City Council commercial buildings will now be using 100 per cent green electricity, to support carbon neutral efforts.

Conservative-held constituencies are the overwhelming beneficiaries of the Prime Minister’s increase in schools funding.

Chancellor Sajid Javid has pledged to raise the National Living Wage to £10.50 within the next five years.
Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, Javid claimed that the policy would ‘help the next generation of go-getters to get ahead’, with the government also planning to lower the age threshold for those who qualify from 25 to 21. This is part of a bid to make the UK ‘the first major economy in the world to end low pay altogether’.

The Transport Secretary has announced new measures to boost buses, including new low-fare, high-frequency ‘Superbus’ networks.

A think tank says that politicians should embrace a domestic agenda built around offering people greater control of their lives.

The Labour Party will scrap Universal Credit, calling the flagship Tory welfare reform ‘inhumane’ and an ‘unmitigated disaster’.

Greater Manchester could become the first city-region in the UK to hold a public consultation on the introduction of a bus franchising scheme.
Bus franchising is currently in place in London and other major global cities, and means bus services – including routes, timetables, fares and standards – would be brought under local control.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) will be asked at a meeting on 7 October to give the go ahead for a major public consultation into how the buses should be run in Greater Manchester, launching on Monday 14 October.

The School Cuts coalition has revealed that four in five of England’s schools will be worse off next year than they were in 2015.

A care commission set up by Plaid Cymru has recommended that all social care in Wales should be free at the point of need.
The party is likely to turn the idea into party policy ahead of the next assembly elections in 2021, saying that providing services free of charge was ‘eminently affordable but it needs the political will to make it happen’.