Your Guide to the upcoming 2024 Local Elections

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Opinion polls suggest that the Conservative Party could fare badly. Politics expert Dr Steve McCabe discusses the issues that may sway the electorate.

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00:00 Well in terms of the issues, housing is a problem, social services, the fact is that

00:07 local authorities have been starved for funding by the government over the last number of

00:11 governments and of course remember the Conservative Party goes back to 2010 when it narrowly got

00:18 a majority but not enough to create the government and went into coalition with the Liberal Democrat

00:23 and we had the period of austerity. That's really undermined council's ability to do

00:27 their job which of course is to provide the local services and indeed we've seen this

00:31 council going bankrupt. So people are looking for something better but the difficulty is

00:36 of course that whoever they vote in will still have the same constraints in terms of spending

00:41 so the Conservatives are going to get a bit of a kicking. The big show will be the national

00:45 election when of course the issue of local authority funding is bound to come up but

00:50 Labour have pretty much said that their ability to give the money that's necessary to improve

00:55 levels of services for local authorities is very very limited.

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