The Local Government Association's annual conference always sits in an awkward space between the post-local election political shuffle and the Parliamentary recess. This year has shuffled more than most following the tumultuous May polls and we sit on the cusp of a change of Prime Minister.
Between the outgoing Starmer government and an incoming almost certainly Burnham regime – with a backdrop of Reform UK's Nigel Farage's resignation – conference was, by necessity, always going to be policy light.
