Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to delay cuts to corporation tax to fund other ‘priorities’ like the NHS.

The Green Party is set to launch its election manifesto with a pledge to reach net zero carbon emissions in the UK by 2030.
The co-leaders says his party would invest £100 billion a year by 2030 as part of a ‘green new deal’ to tackle climate change - mainly paid for by borrowing. The manifesto also includes promises to build 100,000 new zero carbon homes for social rent each year.

New figures from the RAC Foundation show that councils across the country made a total of £930 million from parking activities in a year.
The record figure during the past financial year is a seven per cent increase on 2017-18, with 17 of the 20 councils making the most money in London, with Westminster Council accruing the largest amount, at £69 million. Brighton and Hove, Birmingham and Milton Keynes were the only three in the top 20 not in the capital.

The Welsh Government is reforming local government in Wales to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote at local elections.

Andy Burnham has challenged party leaders to commit to taking immediate steps to tackle the homelessness crisis and save lives this winter.

New TUC analysis has shown that the number of children growing up in poverty in working households has risen by 800,000 since 2010.
The analysis by the union reveals that child poverty in working families rose to 2.9 million in 2018 – an increase of 38 per cent since the start of the decade. In 2010, one in five (19 per cent) children in working households were growing up in poverty. In 2018 this had increased to one in four (24 per cent).

Rates of work-related stress, depression and anxiety among civil servants has risen drastically in the past year to the highest level for decades.
Amid warnings that Whitehall will reach ‘breaking point’, official data indicates that the proportion of civil servants who say they are experiencing stress has increased by 45 per cnet, with increasing workloads, looming deadlines, departures of senior staff and the pressures around delivering Brexit all blamed for the rise.

A Labour government will creat​e a climate apprenticeship programme to deliver 320,000 apprenticeships during its first term in government.

New research has revealed that nearly a third of adults were in a collision, or had a near miss, with a vehicle on a UK road in the past year.

The County Councils Network has urged the incoming government to set out a ‘practical devolution settlement for all’.
David Williams, chairman of the CCN, addressed hundreds of delegates at the network’s annual conference, and stressed that whoever enters Downing Street next month must ‘engage with county authorities’ on the big domestic issues, such as housing, care, and economic growth. He said that councils will need to hit the ground running in influencing a new government.