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Michael Burton

Michael Burton

Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

Articles by Michael Burton

Director's chair: Labour's paradox

By Michael Burton | 29 January 2014

DCLG has admitted that it has absolutely no intention of going any further down the localist road.

Taking the case for fiscal reform to Whitehall

By Michael Burton | 29 January 2014

Michael Burton looks at some of the key submissions to the CLG select committee's inquiry on fisc...

Infrastructure firm hires project management head

By Michael Burton | 29 January 2014

Ian Troughton has been appointed to the new post of head of project management within Mouchel Inf...

Housing expert appointed as DCLG non-executive director

By Michael Burton | 29 January 2014

DCLG has appointed housing expert Grenville Turner as a non-executive director to the department’...

Local enterprise partnership chair gets CIPFA role

By Michael Burton | 29 January 2014

CIPFA has announced that Paul Woolston, a former senior partner at PwC, has been appointed as the...

Birmingham City Council completes management restructure

By Michael Burton | 29 January 2014

Birmingham City Council has completed its management restructure after the appointment of Mark Ro...

Labour leaders call for new deal for local government

By Michael Burton | 23 January 2014

Labour leaders have called for a new deal for English local government.

Don't get any ideas from Down Under, Eric

By Michael Burton | 23 January 2014

I took the opportunity of a trip Down Under this month to get a feel about the country’s public s...

Labour policy on local government raises more questions than answers

By Michael Burton | 23 January 2014

It’s been a long time coming but, at last, we are getting some inkling of what a Labour governmen...

Key Cities manifesto launched

By Michael Burton | 22 January 2014

Deputy chair of the regional growth fund advisory panel Lord Shipley has launched the new Key Cit...