Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg sets out the Liberal Democrats’ offer to local government – devolution on demand, health and care integration, housing flexibilities and local school planning
Our party’s roots are in local government and the Liberal Democrat vision is for empowered, active communities – with decisions being taken at as local a level as possible.
That is why our manifesto contains a specific pledge to ‘reduce the powers of ministers to interfere in democratically elected local government’.
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