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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Playing it long

By Jonathan Werran | 02 June 2021

A Localis policy webinar on long-term local government finances indicated strategic pragmatism w...

Local results will supercharge the levelling up ambitions

By Jonathan Werran | 07 May 2021

The Conservative government is now set to enjoy an assured position of dominance and power at loc...

Let's make sure Transforming Public Procurement delivers beyond SW1

By Jonathan Werran | 20 April 2021

We shouldn’t allow Greensill to distract us from asking what needs to change centrally to release...

At the right level

By Jonathan Werran | 17 March 2021

As the heart of the UK's knowledge and biotech economies, Oxford urgently needs urban leadership ...

Experienced drivers wanted

By Jonathan Werran | 10 February 2021

Let our localities choose which local delivery vehicles should drive growth and recovery from gov...

SPENDING REVIEW: Live to fight another year

By Jonathan Werran | 25 November 2020

Local government has probably got just about enough from the chancellor to keep the show on the r...

Creating Powerful Communities

By Jonathan Werran | 17 November 2020

The Recovery and Devolution White Paper must seize on the promise of double devolution to build e...

HOUSING: You get what you give

By Jonathan Werran | 11 November 2020

Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran asks what the inability to deliver a multi-year finance s...

Give us the fiscal tools to finish the recovery job

By Jonathan Werran | 16 July 2020

Fiscal devo should work in England to boost growth, placemaking and social wellbeing as it does i...

Protecting our social infrastructure

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2020

The needs of community infrastructure are as deserving of funding as the multi-billions being all...