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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Leave those kids alone
By Claire Fox | 30 July 2019
Claire Fox says councils continue to thwart kids’ play activities in the interests of bureaucracy
WHITEHALL
'Nearly everyone' showed correct ID in voter trials
By Naomi Larsson | 22 July 2019
An independent evaluation of voter ID trials in May has found they were a success and ‘nearly eve...
FINANCE
Local government must surely be up for a shift to insourcing
By John Tizard | 22 July 2019
Labour has published a plan for ‘21st century insourcing’. John Tizard says the party is 'not sim...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
MPs to examine devolution progress
By Dan Peters | 12 July 2019
Progress on devolution in England will be scrutinised by a new Housing, Communities and Local Gov...
WHITEHALL
Voter ID confidence drops
By Hiba Mahamadi | 12 June 2019
The proportion of people who think voter ID helps to prevent electoral fraud has dropped from 52%...
WHITEHALL
Call for Liverpool intervention after mayoral review frustration
By Dan Peters | 12 June 2019
Liverpool City Council’s Lib Dem leader has called for the Government to intervene after he claim...
WHITEHALL
Council hits back after MP calls for abolition
By Dan Peters | 07 June 2019
Telford & Wrekin Council has said calls from an MP for its abolition are an ‘insult to democracy ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
The basic laws of political physics
By Jonathan Carr-West | 05 June 2019
Dr Jonathan Carr-West says pressure provides a burning platform and the political vacuum an oppor...
WHITEHALL
'Enough is enough'
By Peter Stanyon | 04 June 2019
Chief executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) Peter Stanyon says a root an...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Counting the costs of the 'break-neck speed' EU elections
By Ian Miller | 04 June 2019
Returning officer Ian Miller writes in a personal capacity about the lessons Government and the H...
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