LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Proportional votes to come to Wales

By Dan Peters | 19 November 2020

Proportional voting will be introduced to Welsh council elections for the first time as the franc...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Councils are the counterbalance

By Claire Fox | 16 November 2020

Priorities seem to have ‘become skewed by COVID-related policy-making on all sides of politics’, ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Local government does a brilliant job in elections

By Ben Page | 11 November 2020

Ben Page 'cannot ever recall a UK election 'like the one Americans are currently fighting over'. ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

We've made strategic errors on UK elections

By Mike Bennett | 09 November 2020

Election counts need more speed and spectacle for democracy to survive the Trump effect, argues M...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Cabinet Office rules out elections delay

By Heather Jameson | 03 November 2020

The Cabinet Office has ruled out any further delays to local elections despite the complexity of ...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Shevlin suggests reorganisation alternative as rival bids threaten his council's future

By Dan Peters | 03 November 2020

A former chair of the District Councils’ Network chief executives’ group has suggested a radical ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Making Counties Count: Don't they Already?

By Colin Copus | 02 November 2020

Steve Leach and Colin Copus argue a move to county-based unitaries would ‘draw local government a...

WHITEHALL

Tax increases more likely than austerity, says Flanders

By Dan Peters | 15 October 2020

A top economist has predicted that tax increases are more likely than another bout of austerity.

WHITEHALL

Labour would adopt 'local by default' approach

By Dan Peters | 15 October 2020

A Labour government would strike a ‘new settlement between citizens and the state’ and adopt a ‘l...

WHITEHALL

Jenrick dashes county reorganisation hopes

By Dan Peters | 13 October 2020

Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has torpedoed plans for widespread reorganisation beyon...

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