Writing in the Guardian,former shadow trade secretary says his party must embrace devolution as Britain ‘needs wholesale federalisation’Labour must not dismiss George Osborne’s northern powerhouse” but instead embrace devolution and champion the idea of a wholly federalised Britain, Chuka Umunna has said.
The Labour MP and former shadow trade secretary, and who returned to the backbenches after Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader,said Osborne’s plans were “style over substance” and full of spin. But Labour ought to be making a bolder tender to be the party of decentralisation, handing over more power from Whitehall to local councils, or he said.
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Source: theguardian.com