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WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Clegg's power pledge
By Jonathan Werran | 21 April 2015
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has vowed to restore English local government’s status as a ‘p...
FINANCE
Labour would seek immediate imposition of mansion tax
21 April 2015
A Labour government would levy a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m in its first weeks...
PAY
UKIP vows to slash senior council staff and salaries
By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2015
UKIP has promised to slash ‘excessive pay deals and golden handshakes for council executives’ in ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Lib Dem manifesto commits to local government fiscal freedom
15 April 2015
The Liberal Democrat manifesto has committed the party to delivering greater fiscal freedom for E...
EDUCATION
Lib Dems £2.5bn education funding boost pledge
By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2015
A promise to find an extra £2.5bn for education funding by 2020 forms the centrepiece of the Libe...
WHITEHALL
The truth about pre-election pledges
By Joe Randall | 14 April 2015
Political parties promise decentralisation, but will they ever yield? Joe Randall sets out four t...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Reviving the election lottery
By Simon Parker | 14 April 2015
Simon Parker argues for the random selection of councillors and peers from the citizenry as a mea...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
A waste of space
By Claire Fox | 14 April 2015
Claire Fox takes aim at local authorities for their zealous and bizarre use of Public Space Prote...
ASSET MANAGEMENT
Right to Buy plans 'don't stack up' experts warn
By Jonathan Werran | 14 April 2015
Housing experts have lined up today to attack Conservative plans to extend the Right to Buy schem...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Local government on frontline of manifesto battleground
By Jonathan Werran | 14 April 2015
The Labour and Conservative party manifestos have drawn electoral battle lines over key local gov...
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