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Communities in Control

As a councillor on Kettering borough council, may I say that there will be huge concern throughout the borough of Kettering about the Secretary of State's proposals to allow council officers to participate in party political activity? Local residents rightly value the impartiality of local government officers, just as the British people rightly value the impartiality of the civil service. It seems to a lot of people that the Government are trying to blur the edges on that important issue.