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Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

While austerity once defined local government policy, Michael Burton says chief executives can no...

Now is perhaps the time to re-evaluate the success, or more importantly the failure, of urban pol...

With Number 10 suggesting cash revenues from shale gas exploration could bypass councils, Michael...

Last week’s inaugural meeting of No 10’s new economic and industrial strategy cabinet committee m...

A pair of very contrasting reports have been published on the cost of poverty to local government...

Michael Burton looks at the state of play on EU funding for the UK

Chancellor Philip Hammond has received mixed news on the public finances in the first results to ...

George Osborne will be remembered as the austerity chancellor but his successor Philip Hammond mo...

As the dust settles on Theresa May’s new ministerial appointments Michael Burton ascertains the i...

As the Government receives a new leader, Michael Burton examines how Theresa May might approach t...