The country’s most influential council leader has proclaimed that ‘devolution is dead’ and suggested local government is to blame.
Chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA) Lord Gary Porter told the District Councils’ Network’s inaugural conference that the ‘boat has sailed out of the harbour’ because local government threw it back in the Government's face.
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