00:00Local government funding has been completely decimated over the previous 14 years of the
00:07Conservative government, really slashed to the absolute core. We gave local government the
00:15biggest settlement in a generation just a year or two ago. We can't put everything right overnight
00:22but we absolutely recognise the value of local government and ensuring that local people have
00:29got the services that they want and can rely on and that their area is well looked after in the
00:37way
00:37that they would expect their local council to do. So local government is the heart of everything
00:43we're trying to deliver as a Labour government but it will take some time.
