Author: Andrew Cooper

Andrew has been a Green Party councillor on Kirklees Council since 1999. He is the Green Party's energy spokesperson and has initiated a number of pioneering policies including proposing the first universally free insulation scheme in Kirklees in 2007. Andrew has also been a delegate to four UN climate change talks and in 2018 influenced the global agreement to give more say at a local and regional level on action to reduce carbon emissions.

Local government is broken, but Westminster is is trying to fix it in the wrong way

Andrew Cooper 25 July 2020

Local government in the UK is a dog’s breakfast. It is a mixture of different structures and electoral systems which is dizzying in its complexity. But change is on the horizon. We have single-tier metropolitan and city councils with responsibility for all local government functions. In other areas you have double-tier areas with county councils […]