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Whitehall chiefs blamed for delays to spending cuts

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

A failure of political leadership at the top of the civil service could damage plans to speed up ...

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Authorities' pilots offer guidance on how to apply UC

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Welfare ministers have launched a handbook providing advice to local authorities on implementing ...

Corridors of Power: Osborne's full employment target

02 April 2014

Labour advisers Jake Smith and Sally Underwood are catching up over a skinny latte in Victoria St...

Khan apologises for Pickles joke

02 April 2014

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan had to apologise to Eric Pickles last week after publishing o...

A bit of a mayor

02 April 2014

In today’s maudlin world, with its pathetic insistence on authenticity, Diary is always happy to ...

Dead parrot's society

02 April 2014

For people of a certain age, death can mean only one thing - the Monty Python parrot sketch.

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Data wiped at probed public/private partnership - claims

By MJ Correspondent | 02 April 2014

Data was intentionally wiped by staff at the largest public/private partnership of its kind in th...

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Tower Hamlets mayor seeks to rebut Panorama accusations

By Jonathan Werran | 01 April 2014

Lutfur Rahman, the under fire mayor of Tower Hamlets LBC refutes a series of allegations broadca...

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Core Cities back down on threat to leave LGA

By Heather Jameson | 01 April 2014

All but one of the core cities have stayed in the Local Government Association, despite their mas...

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Local control of Whitehall spend is next step to fiscal freedom, cities minister tells MPs

By Jonathan Werran | 01 April 2014

Local control over billion pounds worth of Whitehall budgets should form the next step to the age...