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Nandy suggests council chief role in shadow cabinet
Labour leadership contender Lisa Nandy has said that her party should invite council leaders to attend its shadow cabinet.
Seeking both to rebuild the party following the general election and give the party’s grassroots a significant boost, the Wigan MP said that a change in its policies on local government was likely and that the approach to local councillors would strengthen Labour’s work in regaining the scores of ‘red wall’ seats lost in December. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour lost 59 constituencies in their worst defeat since 1935.
The former Shadow Energy Secretary also suggested that £12 billion of funding for local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) should go straight to local authorities. Nandy also told local councillors and residents in Worksop, Bassetlaw, how Labour needs to focus on revitalising towns, including significant investment in bus services, to secure the party’s future and a path back to electoral success.
Nandy said: “As a former councillor, I know that the role of local government must immediately be elevated in our party and especially when decisions are being made. Under my leadership the elected Labour Local Government Association leader will have an open invitation to join my shadow cabinet meetings alongside our elected party leaders in Scotland and Wales. Our councillors and their leaders possess so much insight and expertise through that we cannot afford to exclude them as we learn the hard lessons from successive election defeats.”
The new Labour leader will be decided by ballot in April. To date, Nandy is joined in the vote by Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer and Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry is still seeking to secure her name on the ballot due to go out to members.
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