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REFORM UK CONFERENCE
Farage eyes London council elections and the Mayoral race
By Ann McGauran | 06 September 2025
All of London’s boroughs are in the electoral sights of Reform UK next year as it ‘gets ready to have a mayoral candidate so that we can beat Sadiq Khan next time round’, party leader Nigel Farage ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: LGA must show its value to councils, says Reform UK group leader
By Dan Peters | 15 August 2025
Reform UK will review its decision to have a group at the Local Government Association (LGA) afte...
PEOPLE
Earnshaw announces West Northamptonshire departure
By Dan Peters | 14 August 2025
West Northamptonshire Council’s chief executive Anna Earnshaw has announced she will be leaving t...
ELECTIONS
Government proposes Automatic Voter Registration move
By Dan Peters | 17 July 2025
Government plans to move to Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) will ‘make life simpler for everyo...
ELECTIONS
Elections 'uncertainty' hindered preparations
By Martin Ford | 15 July 2025
‘Uncertainty’ over whether this year's county council elections would go ahead hampered officers’...
ELECTIONS
Under pressure: The strain of snap elections
By Peter Stanyon | 09 July 2025
Peter Stanyon says election teams must have the legislation, systems and funding in place if they...
ELECTIONS
Reform LGA leader nominated
By Paul Marinko | 26 June 2025
Reform UK has decided who the leader and deputy leader of its new Local Government Association gr...
REORGANISATION
The death of local government
By Steve Leach | 25 June 2025
The Government’s commitment to authorities of around half-a-million will further decimate the cou...
POLITICS
Ministers propose cancelling Surrey CC elections again
By Dan Peters | 17 June 2025
Ministers have proposed cancelling Surrey CC elections for a second year as they launched a consu...
STRONGER THINGS
Stronger Things: Call for 'swap back' to single transferable votes for mayors
By Ann McGauran | 04 June 2025
The Government should use the Elections Bill to revert to single transferable votes for mayoral e...
POLITICS
Reform councils' finances to be reviewed
By Izzy Lepone | 02 June 2025
A team of auditors led by a UK ‘tech entrepreneur’ will be tasked with reviewing the finances of ...
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