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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Lib Dems £2.5bn education funding boost pledge

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2015

A promise to find an extra £2.5bn for education funding by 2020 forms the centrepiece of the Libe...

Maintaining momentum for efficiency and reform

By Jonathan Werran | 14 April 2015

The next administration risks losing the momentum that has built up over the last five years and ...

Right to Buy plans 'don't stack up' experts warn

By Jonathan Werran | 14 April 2015

Housing experts have lined up today to attack Conservative plans to extend the Right to Buy schem...

Local government on frontline of manifesto battleground

By Jonathan Werran | 14 April 2015

The Labour and Conservative party manifestos have drawn electoral battle lines over key local gov...

Rotherham chief's salary could reach £200,000

By Jonathan Werran | 13 April 2015

Rotherham MBC is considering plans to pay a 25% market supplement - potentially boosting the chie...

York's Kersten England to be Bradford's next chief

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

City of York chief executive Kersten England has been announced as the preferred candidate to ass...

Councils want freedom to set Right to Buy discounts

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

The next government should give councils greater flexibility to set discounts under the Right to ...

Chief exec role to go, say Lib Dems

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

Liverpool City Council’s Lib Dem group has pledged to call time on the role of chief executive sh...

Council tax top of election agenda

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

Conservative and Labour party heavyweights have brought the future of council tax charges to the ...

£2.5bn to cut bed-blocking

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

Lib Dems have called for a £2.5bn injection for social care spending over the next five years to ...