Stephen Cowan: Recent Episodes
Stephen Cowan
Stephen Cowan is the Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham which is a radical, Labour political administration which has:
Abolished charges for adult social care
Delivered 3rd lowest council tax in Britain
Fought the government and saved Charing Cross Hospital from demolition
Introduced free breakfast for all school children
Sent social workers into refugee camps to rescue children
Won a British record of £685million from property developers by taking a kick ass approach to negotiations.
Amongst other things
BBC Radio London's Venessa Feltz interviews Hammersmith & Fulham's Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care on the COVID-19 crisis, testing and tracing, and why the government needs to up its game to save lives and protect our economy
Jim Davis interviews Hammersmith & Fulham Council Leader, Cllr. Stephen Cowan on the closure of Hammersmith Bridge
COVID-19 is easily spread by people not practicing social distancing. Stephen Cowan talks about the measures Hammersmith & Fulham are taking to enforce the 2m distance on their riverfront and in their parks.
World at One looked at measures being taken to tackle COVID-19 interviewing Cllr Stephen Cowan, Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham, Professor Helen Ward of the Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health Collage, Imperial Collage London, and Dr Xand van Tulleken
Stephen Cowan calls on the Prime Minister to withdraw the Conservative Party whip from Boris Johnson on 8 August 2018
Ben on BBC Radio London talking about the festivities at the amazing North End Road Spring Market
Hammersmith & Fulham's Labour administration is pioneering a new electric car club for their residents aiming to clean the air and give people new more environmentally positive travel options.
Stephen Cowan talks about how H&F Labour run Britain's only council to abolish home care charges and cut council tax and what the government needs to do to stop the social care post code lottery across the UK.
In 2014, shortly after winning control of H&F Council, Cllr Andrew Jones (Lab) and Council Leader Cllr Stephen Cowan (Lab) went back over all the open property deals the Conservatives had closed with property speculators. They re-negotiated them and came away with a staggering £52.25 millions more for local residents. This money is classified as a one off capital receipt. Meanwhile, the newly elected Labour administration also inherited a £71 million annual budget cap in the Council's revenue and expenditure account. That sum is the amount of money the council would have to find on an annual basis to balance its budget in the last year of its four year term. This £71 million is a revenue budget gap which means that money and more needs to be found to balance the budget in year 4 and each year afterwards. It cannot be fixed (in part) with a one off payment from the capital account.. In this recording you can hear Cllr Greg Smith (Con), Hammersmith and Fulham's Conservative Opposition Leader, demonstrating how he really doesn't understand that. And going by the cheers from his fellow Conservative councilors, they don't either.
Social workers from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham arrived in the Calais 'Jungle' on Wednesday having volunteered to formally assess the children trapped in the camp and help bring them to safety. Borough leader Stephen Cowan (Labour) talks about why it's important H&F did this.
Nikki Bedi, sitting in for Vanessa Feltz, interviews Stephen Cowan about the refugee children trapped in the 'Calais Jungle' and his campaigning to get them to safety.
A clip from BBC Radio 4's You And Yours featuring Stephen Cowan talking about why H&F Labour abolished charges for disabed and elderly people needing home care. The full programme is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdnbv