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ELECTIONS

Under pressure: The strain of snap elections

By Peter Stanyon | 09 July 2025

Peter Stanyon says election teams must have the legislation, systems and funding in place if they...

ELECTIONS

Reform LGA leader nominated

By Paul Marinko | 26 June 2025

Reform UK has decided who the leader and deputy leader of its new Local Government Association gr...

REORGANISATION

The death of local government

By Steve Leach | 25 June 2025

The Government’s commitment to authorities of around half-a-million will further decimate the cou...

POLITICS

Ministers propose cancelling Surrey CC elections again

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2025

Ministers have proposed cancelling Surrey CC elections for a second year as they launched a consu...

STRONGER THINGS

Stronger Things: Call for 'swap back' to single transferable votes for mayors

By Ann McGauran | 04 June 2025

The Government should use the Elections Bill to revert to single transferable votes for mayoral e...

POLITICS

Reform councils' finances to be reviewed

By Izzy Lepone | 02 June 2025

A team of auditors led by a UK ‘tech entrepreneur’ will be tasked with reviewing the finances of ...

REORGANISATION

Reform and reorganisation

By Laura Hughes | 28 May 2025

Laura Hughes asks what Reform UK’s local elections success will mean for local government reorgan...

LEADERSHIP

Success is all in the preparation

By Kathy O’Leary | 27 May 2025

Kathy O'Leary writes: 'In district councils we’re prepared to do exactly what I did on marathon d...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Legal threats to Reform ambitions

By Martin Ford | 21 May 2025

Reform UK’s ambitions to shake up local government could be stymied by legal hurdles, an expert w...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

How great city regions can shine again

By Mike Emmerich | 20 May 2025

More of the ‘good London effect’ is needed in more of the country, without the bad capital city e...

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