A choice between action and inaction to tackle the big problems of today – housing, skills, congestion, jobs.
'Oh, we just want to teach everybody good housing skills.' People think you're poor, they think you're dumb or you're a barbarian".
He also called for a devolution deal for London to include new powers over housing, skills, investment, health and crime and justice.
We will not stand by while the state spends more paying interest every year to City speculators and investors holding government debt, than we do on people's housing, skills or transport.
From my experience of leading public bodies, I don't believe that "taking back control" is a philosophical debate for many communities, but is their proxy for the better housing, skills, jobs, pay and hope they desperately want.
We need a new settlement for England that devolves decisions about infrastructure, transport, housing, skills and health and social care to local areas so they can tackle the big issues facing residents.
The thinktank said local authorities currently handle relatively small and fragmented pots of money for transport, housing, skills and economic development, and this makes co-ordination across economic policy areas more difficult.
Using our own team to do the majority of this work ensured the maximum safety of the precious and fragile objects, and utilised the exceptional in-house skills and knowledge.
We need a new settlement for England that devolves decisions about infrastructure, transport, housing, skills and health and social care down to local areas so they can tackle the big issues facing their residents.
"Only radical reform of the way public money is spent and widespread devolution of transport, housing, skills and health and social care across England in the spending review can protect the services which bind our communities together and protect our most vulnerable".
