🏛️ Politics 12h ago · Megan Kenyon

Can Green councils avoid austerity?

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The Green Party won its first majority-controlled council, Mid Suffolk district council, in May 2023. In four weeks’ time, if the polls are to be believed, the party could replicate that unprecedented victory on a much wider scale, winning councils across London and beyond.



But Green Party officials are looking towards these potential gains with trepidation. Local government is struggling under the weight of rising demand – for social care, housing and other statutory services – amid a landsc

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