The sun always shines in local government. Well, mostly.

There was a great deal of sunshine at UKREiiF in Leeds last week, where the great and the good of the property industry and large swaths of local government assembled to do development deals. A far cry from the torrential rain of last year that culminated in the-then Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, calling a General Election. It has been a tumultuous year since – and the pace of change shows no signs of abating.