Far from facing up to the centralism embedded in central government, the Localism Act actually reinforces it, say George Jones and John Stewart.
We argued that the Localism Bill, now the Act, did not deal with the main barriers to localism, which lay within central government ('The centre will always hold', The MJ, 20 October 2011).
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