Shadow levelling up secretary Angela Rayner has avoided committing Labour to providing local government with additional funding if the party wins the impending General Election.
In an interview with The Guardian, she branded the Government’s £600m boost to the Local Government Funding Settlement a ‘sticking plaster’ which was ‘cynically’ only aimed at getting the Conservatives through the election.
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