In the Media

Material on or by our Campaign in the Media

A letter published in the Guardian in response to an article by John Harris on the local government funding crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/01/to-build-trust-with-voters-keir-starmer-must-be-honest-with-them

An article on our Open Letter to the Labour leadership, published in the Morning Star on Saturday 20th 2024

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/resolving-local-government-and-housing-crises-open-letter-labour

Article on Labourlist from our media release

Government accused of “stealing” Right to Buy cash from local councils – LabourList

Our press release on joint letter to Thangam Debbonaire on Labour Housing policy on the Labour Representation Committee and Labourhub websites

https://labourrep.com/blog/2020/9/16/labour-should-demand-the-government-funds-large-scale-council-housing-programme-and-ends-right-to-buy

https://labourhub.org.uk/2020/09/16/labour-should-demand-the-government-funds-large-scale-council-housing-programme-and-ends-right-to-buy/

Bristol Labour Mayor backs debt cancellation for local authorities

https://labourlist.org/2020/06/labour-bristol-mayor-backs-debt-cancellation-for-local-authorities/

An article in the Morning Star on the campaign to cancel local authority debt

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-return-austerity-cancel-local-authority-debt

An article in Labour Briefing on the debt cancellation campaign

https://labourbriefing.org/blog/2020/4/28/cancel-local-authority-debt?rq=martin%20wicks

This is a media release on the local authority debt cancellation campaign

https://thelabourcampaignforcouncilhousing.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/mediareleasemay2020.pdfmediareleasemay2020

Our letter to the new leadership reported on the Labourlist website

https://labourlist.org/2020/04/labour-must-stick-to-2019-manifesto-pledge-of-100000-council-homes-a-year/

An article on Labourlist on how Labour’s leadership candidates responded to our questions on Labour’s housing policy

https://labourlist.org/2020/02/how-labours-leadership-candidates-responded-to-council-housing-pledges/

An article on Labourlist on our Open Letter on radicalising Labour’s housing policy

https://labourlist.org/2019/10/open-letter-put-radical-housing-policies-in-labours-manifesto/