For their part, district councils must push themselves into a prime position from which to freely offer the kind of collaborative leadership that would help both rebalance the national economy and urgently restore the nation’s depleted housing stock.
Although business secretary Greg Clark offered less detail to delegates in Birmingham on industrial strategy than he had previously, there is a markedly visible localist thread to the thinking of the former minister for decentralisation.
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