Gove summoned to appear before MPs

By Martin Ford | 01 March 2023

A select committee has demanded local government secretary Michael Gove appears before them after their recommendations for a governance overhaul were snubbed.

The Government today rejected the call by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee for a cross-party commission on governance arrangements in England, describing the central recommendation as not ‘proportionate or desirable’.

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