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Michael Burton

Michael Burton

Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

Articles by Michael Burton

FINANCE

Retail chiefs call for more rate relief as Sunak considers tax hikes

By Michael Burton | 01 September 2020

Retail chiefs have urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend business rate relief just as he plans t...

FINANCE

Scots deficit widens in blow to nationalists

By Michael Burton | 27 August 2020

In a blow to Scottish separatists Scotland’s notional deficit widened to 8.6% of gross domestic p...

FINANCE

UK council finances 'hardest hit in Europe, claims Moody's

By Michael Burton | 26 August 2020

UK local authorities are set to be hardest hit financially by the coronavirus among the five larg...

PLANNING

Housing targets hit Tory shires most, ministers are warned

By Michael Burton | 25 August 2020

Ministers have been warned that proposed changes to the housing targets formula outlined earlier ...

WHITEHALL

Lockdown havoc on finance figures

By Michael Burton | 21 August 2020

Public debt has bust the £2 trillion mark for the first time, up by £227.6bn over the same time l...

HEALTH

Public health must not be downplayed by PHE's abolition

By Michael Burton | 19 August 2020

To start tearing down structures like PHE while the pandemic still rages and when the wider prev...

WHITEHALL

IFS finds £2bn budget black hole

By Michael Burton | 18 August 2020

Councils face a budget black hole of £2bn this year due to unfunded coronavirus costs, a new stud...

PLANNING

A demolition job on the planning system

By Michael Burton | 18 August 2020

The Prime Minister regards the new planning White Paper as ‘levelling the foundations’ of the pre...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Hancock scraps Public Health England

By Michael Burton | 17 August 2020

Ministers have been accused of making Public Health England (PHE) a scapegoat by scrapping the bo...

FINANCE

Ex-ministers unite in health devolution call

By Michael Burton | 13 August 2020

Five former ministers from all three main parties have called for health and social care to be de...

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