EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall-backed leadership drive latest austerity casualty

By Dan Peters | 21 February 2017

A ‘powerful’ new leadership offer for local government backed by No 10 is the latest casualty of shifting Whitehall priorities, The MJ can reveal.

Private correspondence between 10 Downing Street and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) last year suggests Whitehall had been keen to make a ‘strong announcement’ on a new approach to leadership development for the sector by early summer 2016.

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