Steve Leach and Dennis Reed

  • Time to work together

    14 February 2017

    The Government’s combined authority and reorganisation policies clash. Steve Leach and Dennis Reed argue it is time for local government to present a united front against top down restructuring

  • A dangerous path for devolution

    07 June 2016

    Steve Leach and Dennis Reed say the Government’s approach to handing powers over to councils is the antithesis of devolution and will see authorities losing influence

  • Reorganisation makes a comeback

    12 April 2016

    Professor Steve Leach and Dennis Reed analyse the latest action on reorganisation and ask whether local government should be asking for more from the Government

  • Local government on the brink

    10 February 2016

    The combined authorities initiative, hailed as ‘English devolution’ to empower local government, is not what it seems, warn professor Steve Leach and former LGiU chief Dennis Reed