The Conservative Government has announced that an extra £26 million is to be given to Labour-run London Borough of Barnet to help balance their finances.

Since taking office in 2022, Barnet Labour have shown a complete inability to responsibly manage existing budgets, despite being on a robust financial footing from the previous Conservative administration (something Council leader Rawlings himself has admitted).

In just 18 months, they've crashed the council’s finances and forced local taxpayers to pick up the tab.

Now that the Conservatives have stepped in to fix Labour's self-inflicted hole in Barnet's finances, they now have the opportunity to fix the holes in our deteriorating roads, and also have no excuse to break their promise to keep council tax increases significantly under the legal minimum.