Leamington Green councillor part of delegation at Downing Street to lobby Conservatives against local government cuts

Jonathan Chilvers (centre) & Caroline Lucas MP (second from right) at Downing Street.

Leamington Green Party councillor Jonathan Chilvers was part of a delegation to Number 10 Downing Street this week which called on the Conservatives to “end their destructive cuts to local government”.

Ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) announcement next Wednesday, the Green Party has called for an end to the what it has described as the government’s “ideologically-driven” austerity programme.

Cllr Chilvers who represents the Leamington Brunswick ward for Warwickshire County Council) said: “Proposed cuts to local council grants from central government will devastate local services which we all rely on in Warwickshire.