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ELECTIONS

Local government: An age of electoral insecurity has started

By Duncan Flynn | 10 May 2026

More councils are in no overall control, meaning more fragile alliances, more deal-making, more l...

ELECTIONS

Re-localising elections

By Professor Colin Copus | 10 May 2026

A voting system that allows for not only national parties, but real independents, local parties a...

ELECTIONS

Labour election losses mount amid Reform surge

By Martin Ford | 08 May 2026

Labour has lost control of a slew of councils amid a surge in support for Reform UK following yes...

ELECTIONS

And now for something completely different

By Jonathan Werran | 08 May 2026

Jonathan Werran scans the first indications from the local election results, and says that for La...

ELECTIONS

Ripples from local election will reverberate for weeks

By Heather Jameson | 07 May 2026

Heather Jameson says: 'There will no doubt be casualties – some deserving, others not – at the ba...

ELECTIONS

Sampling voters' sentiments

By Sarah Longlands | 05 May 2026

Growing dissatisfaction is pushing voters away from traditional parties, using elections to expre...

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Cotton 'deal' would land Birmingham in the mire

By Heather Jameson | 29 April 2026

Heather Jameson says if Cllr John Cotton’s pay deal - announced by him as Labour leader of Birmi...

HOMELESSNESS

Mayors: A secret weapon to tackle homelessness?

By Jack Shaw | 29 April 2026

Jack Shaw says mayoral leadership can add much-needed ballast to a broken, expensive system that ...

POLITICS

Kent's political possibilities

By Duncan Flynn | 29 April 2026

While the sector awaits a swathe of government decisions on unitarisation, Duncan Flynn predicts ...

REORGANISATION

Unitarisation: What comes next?

By Steve Leach | 24 April 2026

Steve Leach and Colin Copus ask if there will be ‘a further influx of smaller unitary authorities...

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