The contest to replace Jo Swinson as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats will take place this summer.

There is an urgent need to increase the pace and scale of investment into the energy efficiency and resilience of UK residential buildings.

London boroughs have agreed a new pan-London partnership to secure emergency supplies of PPE for crucial local services.

Local authority children’s services have been reduced to crisis-driven firefighting as a result of years of under investment.

New research has revealed a lack of cyber security awareness among public sector workers, with almost half unaware of ransomware.

NNine out of ten Britons say they appreciate the UK’s public services more now than they did before the coronavirus outbreak.

Anyone with symptoms of coronavirus is now eligible to book a test, ahead of the rollout of the test and trace service.

New data has shown that Oxford city centre has seen a historic 59 per cent drop in air pollution as a direct result of the coronavirus lockdown.
Independent experts from Ricardo Energy and Environment modelled what air quality would have been like without lockdown measures in place and compared this with the actual measurements obtained at sites across the UK. The assessment found a 59 per cent reduction in toxic nitrogen dioxide in Oxford as a direct result of the lockdown measures.

The government must act immediately to tackle the fastest spike in unemployment on record or risk permanent damage to our economy.

Andy Burnham has called on ministers to take a ‘much more locally focused’ response to the coronavirus crisis.