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DEVOLUTION

Devo Bill 'snatches' power upwards

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025

Power is being ‘snatched upwards and away from local voices’ by the English Devolution and Commun...

BUDGET 2025

Budget: Mayors to get tourist tax powers

By William Eichler | 26 November 2025

England’s regional mayors will soon have the power to introduce a levy on overnight stays in hote...

BUDGET 2025

Budget: Council tax surcharge to 'support funding for local government services'

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025

Revenue from the high value council tax surcharge will be used to ‘support funding for local gove...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Policing reform shouldn't be piecemeal

By Sir Bob Neill | 26 November 2025

The abolition of police and crime commissioners is a start, but no substitute for the scale of re...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reed U-turn over committee system abolition

By Neil Merrick | 25 November 2025

Local authorities that already use the committee system will be allowed to retain it under strict...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reed vows to stop those trying to pull country apart

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2025

Communities secretary Steve Reed has vowed to stop ‘people at the extremes of politics who are tr...

WALES

Welsh settlement 'does not come close' to matching pressures

By William Eichler | 25 November 2025

Local authority leaders across Wales have warned the provisional 2026-27 local government settlem...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Devo Bill amendments to protect councillors' addresses

By Paul Marinko | 24 November 2025

Ministers have acted upon Conservative calls to table amendments to the Devo Bill so councillors’...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Review to assess fee devolution

By Dan Peters | 21 November 2025

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced a review of counc...

POLICY AND POLITICS

McGovern reminds councils over reorganisation publicity

By Dan Peters | 21 November 2025