Whatever the outcome of the LGR pause, 'the past two years can’t have been for nothing', says Heather Jameson. 'The distraction, the expense and the effort have to be worth more than a scuppered attempt at realising the ambitions – if not necessarily the boundaries – of Redcliffe-Maud.'
We are just over a week on from the moment Angela Rayner sent the local government reorganisation (LGR) process screeching to an abrupt halt and yet there is still more heat than light.
In the intervening period we have come no closer to knowing exactly what is happening with the process.
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