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WHITEHALL

Leadership candidates both pledge to protect green belt

By Chris Mahony | 18 August 2022

The final two candidates in the Conservative Party leadership’s race have pledged to either revie...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Nandy gets Gove-aid

17 August 2022

With the Conservative leadership contest dominating the news, Diary has been thinking about the p...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Oflog bandwagon rolls

By Dan Peters | 17 August 2022

Large-scale drive begins for local government office despite current squeeze on civil service rec...

FINANCE

We need to resist the creep of pork barrel politics

By Jessica Studdert | 16 August 2022

The 'creep of increasingly overt pork barrel politics into our winner-takes-all electoral system ...

WHITEHALL

Solace intervention amid cost of living crisis

By Ann McGauran | 15 August 2022

The Government should look at ‘innovative alternative measures’ in response to the cost of living...

HEALTH

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards rise again

By Mark Conrad | 15 August 2022

The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs) overseen by local authorities increased by...

WHITEHALL

'Limited pushback' to asylum targets

By Mark Conrad | 15 August 2022

Home Office targets to spread the number of asylum seekers around the UK have met with only limit...

FINANCE

IFS: National Care Service could exacerbate service quality differences

By Paul Marinko | 11 August 2022

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned Scotland’s planned National Care Service ‘could...

WHITEHALL

Fury at short notice of asylum targets

By EXCLUSIVE By Mark Conrad and Dan Peters | 10 August 2022

Home Office chiefs were this week accused of dumping responsibility for strict new asylum targets...

BUSINESS RATES

Polling backs councils' fiscal devolution call

By Mark Conrad | 08 August 2022

Ministers should devolve fiscal powers to councils to boost the UK’s economic recovery, South Eas...

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Essex County Council

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