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Michael Burton

Michael Burton

Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

Articles by Michael Burton

Knee-jerk regulation is not the answer to failure

By Michael Burton | 20 June 2023

Michael Burton says that in the wake of financial losses at Woking, Thurrock and elsewhere, the a...

Addressing the NIMBY challenge

By Michael Burton | 19 June 2023

How can we persuade communities to accept that more housing, sensitively placed, is in their inte...

Borrowing £12bn higher than last year

By Michael Burton | 23 May 2023

Room to increase spending or reduce taxes has narrowed after the latest figures showed borrowing ...

Levelling up and devolution 'still too slow'

By Michael Burton | 23 May 2023

The gap between the highest and lowest ranked UK cities is narrowing but levelling up and devolut...

Starmer reveals more on National Care Service

By Michael Burton | 23 May 2023

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to deliver more care staff, closer health and care int...

Stand up for your rights

By Michael Burton | 25 April 2023

The downfall of Dominic Raab should give senior council officers reason to revisit their own rule...

Levelling up areas report highest need for social care due to ill health, census figures show

By Michael Burton | 06 March 2023

Levelling up areas reported the highest need for social care due to ill health, according to late...

Charting the lost decade

By Michael Burton | 01 March 2023

Economist Paul Johnson pulls no punches in his new book on the public finances which charts Gover...

IFS: No case for increased public spending

By Michael Burton | 28 February 2023

There is no case for increased public spending despite better-than-forecast borrowing figures, ac...

£5.4bn surplus recorded for public finances

By Michael Burton | 21 February 2023

The public finances showed a welcome £5.4bn surplus last month as record self-assessment tax reve...