Michael Burton advises local government managers and members to ignore the siren voices of electi...
There is ‘still significant deficit reduction still to come’ and that’s before rising health and ...
With perfect timing the scrutiny of party election pledges by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (I...
A major top down reorganisation of regional government on the other side of La Manche suggests a ...
A few months ago there were predictions that the next Parliament would be a Parliament of Pain bu...
Labour plans to subsume local government websites into Whitehall’s Gov.uk platform have come unde...
The public appetite for austerity is significantly less than in 2010 when voters accepted the pri...
The next government will face tough spending decisions, although cuts may not be as deep as feare...
This is my least favourite time of the political cycle, namely the election campaign, writes Mich...
Local government needs its own Office for Budget Responsibility to fill the gap left by the Audit...
