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Michael Burton

Michael Burton

Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

Articles by Michael Burton

FINANCE

Budget should give more cash to councils, claims IFS

By Michael Burton | 16 February 2021

Next month’s Budget should allocate more funding for local government, health and education while...

INFRASTRUCTURE

Think-tank launches levelling up Big Bang theory

By Michael Burton | 15 February 2021

The Government should launch a Northern Big Bang to ‘unleash a torrent of investment into the Nor...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Rural economic growth deal secured

By Michael Burton | 11 February 2021

A £70m rural economic growth deal has been agreed between the Scottish and UK governments and Arg...

FINANCE

Spelthorne told it must 'understand and manage risk'

By Michael Burton | 01 February 2021

A council that invested almost 40 times its budget in property must ‘understand and manage risk a...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

What next for the capital post-pandemic?

By Michael Burton | 20 January 2021

The levelling up agenda has focused on the Midlands and the North, but London’s economy has also ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

No turning back the digital revolution

By Michael Burton | 13 January 2021

The pandemic transformed councils, in their digital processes and engagement. The MJ and Capita h...

HEALTH

A well-deserved break for the workforce

By Michael Burton | 16 December 2020

Even the Government’s most fervent supporters must admit its response to the pandemic has been mu...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

The PAC casts a gimlet eye on the ministry

By Michael Burton | 08 December 2020

The phrase ‘glass houses and throwing stones’ comes to mind when Government departments finger wa...

BUSINESS

Big banks call for localised approach to recovery

By Michael Burton | 08 December 2020

There should be no ‘one-size fits all’ approach to recovery says a banking group study involving ...

HEALTH

How to cut debt and fund our social care

By Michael Burton | 17 November 2020

A flat-rate health and social care levy to raise £17bn was a centrepiece of a new study last week...

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