The next government needs to provide a ‘strategic direction’ for councils currently operating in a ‘very messy and muddled policy environment,’ a think-tank boss has urged.
Chief executive of right-of-centre think-tank Localis, Liam Booth-Smith, said central government needed to ‘make the decisions only it can make’.
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