This week’s Kent Politics Podcast welcomes Canterbury City Council leader Alan Baldock. He speaks about his life in the Labour Party and how local government needs a fresh approach in its relationship with Whitehall. He says “14 years of Tory austerity” have hallowed out the finances of councils, a problem which will take years to fix. According to him, current funding arrangements need to be scrapped in favour of local authorities being given backing to plan “five or 10 years ahead”. The councillor also talks about the scrapping of controversial plans to divide Canterbury into different traff…