We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

I've always believed in local government.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.