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WHITEHALL

Voter ID rollout could cost £20m

By Martin Ford | 14 August 2018

Calls to halt trials of voter ID have been renewed after Cabinet Office documents showed it could...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Councils resist peer challenge offer

By Dan Peters | 13 August 2018

The Local Government Association (LGA) is facing resistance as it struggles to persuade reluctant...

FINANCE

Suspended Sellgren leaves council

By Dan Peters | 10 August 2018

A council chief executive suspended for nine months after an independent review into problems fac...

WELFARE

Benefit cap inquiry reopened

By Mark Conrad | 06 August 2018

MPs have reopened a Parliamentary inquiry into the impact of the benefit cap after an initial stu...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

In defence of voter ID

By Bob Neill | 01 August 2018

The subject of voter ID has divided many people, but Bob Neill calls for those sceptical about re...

WHITEHALL

Government urged to halt voter ID

By Mark Conrad | 30 July 2018

Ministers have come under renewed pressure to halt plans to expand compulsory voter ID pilots.

ELECTIONS

More voter identification trials needed - Electoral Commission

By Martin Ford | 19 July 2018

Trials of voter identification have worked well, according to the Electoral Commission’s official...

WHITEHALL

Grant chosen to lead troubled Northamptonshire

By Heather Jameson | 12 July 2018

Beleaguered Northamptonshire CC has chosen former Trafford MBC boss Theresa Grant to be its new c...

WHITEHALL

Brokenshire pushed on Brexit

By Mark Conrad | 05 July 2018

Local government has presented communities secretary James Brokenshire with a list of Brexit-rela...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Voter ID in perspective

By Jo Miller | 04 July 2018

Jo Miller, in her role as a returning officer, argues that Voter ID is a very expensive way to ta...