Mayors

By Arianna Giovannini | 02 December 2020

Mayors in the North seem to have grasped the importance of the message that politics can speak to...

WHITEHALL

Tory mayor claims Whitehall blocking devolution

By Martin Ford | 01 December 2020

One of the biggest challenges to devolution comes from civil servants, the Mayor of Cambridgeshir...

WHITEHALL

LGA presses to move powers out of London

By Martin Ford | 19 November 2020

Moving powers from the capital to the regions is more important than moving civil servants, the c...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Remove 'adversarial' funding to level up regions

By Martin Ford | 17 November 2020

Removing competition from local authority funding is needed to level up the country, a think-tank...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Combined authority expansion halted by 'party politics'

By Martin Ford | 09 November 2020

The expansion of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has stalled after leaders failed t...

PUBLIC HEALTH

New enforcement powers expected next week

By Martin Ford | 30 October 2020

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham expects the political process to be wrapped up soon after P...

COMBINED AUTHORITY

Greater Manchester secures £65m lockdown fund

By Martin Ford | 27 October 2020

Mayor Andy Burnham has said he expects to get ‘at least’ £65m from the Government to support peop...

White van man on... the northern lockdown

21 October 2020

I had a right weird dream the other night.

MAYORS

White van man on... mayors

13 October 2020

What’s all this stuff about mayors? I mean the foreigners have mayors like in France where there’...

HEALTH

Leaders still left out of lockdown talks as PM plans three-tier restrictions

By Heather Jameson | 12 October 2020

Government’s commitment to engaging with local leaders over their COVID strategy has failed to ha...

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