Cracking the code to central government relations

By George Jones and John Stewart | 07 January 2014

Local government does not appear in the index of Tony Blair’s 718 pages of autobiography, A Journey (2010).

It was not a subject he’d thought much about, tending to see it as an instrument to deliver public services, as if a central-government department.  Now he is travelling the world telling other countries how they should be governed, and local government is again not part of his programme.



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