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Michael Burton

Michael Burton

Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

Articles by Michael Burton

FINANCE

Largest August borrowing for two years

By Michael Burton | 21 September 2018

Public spending experienced a surprise hike last month due to increases in pensions and welfare b...

WHITEHALL

What to expect from the Spending Review

By Michael Burton | 19 September 2018

Next year’s Spending Review is likely to be one of the toughest since it was first introduced in ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Manchester rock

By Michael Burton | 19 September 2018

Eighteen months into his job as chief executive of the Greater Manchester Mayoral Combined Author...

WHITEHALL

New minister's chance for bold ideas on social care

By Michael Burton | 19 September 2018

One of the advantages of being a new minister is the freedom to throw up all kinds of new ideas -...

WHITEHALL

Spending Review will be 'one of hardest ever'

By Michael Burton | 13 September 2018

Next spring’s Spending Review needs to decide the model for financing social care while the Treas...

FINANCE

Lehman's long shadow on the UK's public finances

By Michael Burton | 11 September 2018

Ten years on, Michael Burton looks at the impact of the collapse of Lehman Brothers on public ser...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Better to be judged by a jury of one's peers

By Michael Burton | 04 September 2018

Michael Burton comments on local government's appetite for peer reviews.

WHITEHALL

IFS: Poorer areas could lose out from fair funding review

By Michael Burton | 22 August 2018

Recent spending cuts could distort any objective analysis of need in the fair funding review mean...

FINANCE

No. 10 can't under-estimate the complexity of funding changes

By Michael Burton | 21 August 2018

Local government finances are undergoing a fundamental reform, but the Government's focus on Brex...

FINANCE

Policy planning for an ageing population

By Michael Burton | 21 August 2018

Local authorities by the seaside and in rural areas will be harder hit by a growing elderly popul...

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