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POLITICS
New politics, new tensions
By Rob Whiteman | 02 September 2025
As Reform UK gathers this week for its annual conference, Rob Whiteman argues that with the party...
COHESION
Call for Government to work with councils on cohesion
By Martin Ford | 02 September 2025
Pleas have been made to the Government to work with councils amid violence and confrontations bet...
LEGAL
Staying sensible when legal issues get polarised
By Aneeka Muneer | 28 August 2025
Aneeka Muneer considers the role of local government lawyers in balancing law, politics, place an...
COHESION
Taskforce fails to recognise councils' key role in cohesion
By EXCLUSIVE by Paul Marinko | 27 August 2025
Ministers have been accused of failing to recognise the ‘vital role’ of councils in cohesion afte...
LEGAL
Farage: Put pressure on councils to follow Epping Forest
By Dan Peters | 19 August 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has urged people to 'put pressure' on councils to go to court after...
COHESION
Can Britain's cohesion drive stop the next riot?
By Paul Marinko | 13 August 2025
The Government’s cohesion taskforce promises a fresh approach to healing divisions – but councils...
MINISTRY OF HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG creates cohesion taskforce
By Dan Peters | 06 August 2025
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has created a taskforce to unde...
POLITICS
Home Office recommits to closing asylum hotels
By Joe Lepper | 31 July 2025
The Government has insisted it ‘remains committed’ to ending the use of hotels for asylum accommo...
IMMIGRATION
Epping Forest councillors urge Government to close asylum hotel
By Joe Lepper | 25 July 2025
Councillors in Epping Forest have voted unanimously to call on the Government to ‘immediately and...
ASYLYM
Fresh criticism of Home Office on asylum
By Neil Merrick | 22 July 2025
Relations between councils and the Home Office soured further this week after the department was ...
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