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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Where is fiscal devolution?

By Jonathan Werran | 13 February 2024

In the first of a series of articles on what the next government could learn from the Lyons Revie...

Throw a lifeline – business rates reform and high streets renewal

By Jonathan Werran | 02 October 2023

A fringe panel event in Liverpool next week will focus thinking on what system of business taxati...

Perfect place

By Jonathan Werran | 22 September 2023

Jonathan Werran reports from a policy event that teased out how lessons from the past could indic...

Level measures

By Jonathan Werran | 04 July 2023

Localis’s research into the potential for public service integration to underpin the delivery of ...

Combined talents

By Amardeep Gill | 20 June 2023

Combined authorities are the default option for optimal devolution – but Amardeep Gill and Jonath...

The new King's golden vision

By Jonathan Werran | 09 May 2023

Jonathan Werran says the new monarch King Charles III should be viewed as a genuine localism cham...

The next showrunners

By Jonathan Werran | 01 February 2023

Jonathan Werran says that, whatever and whoever is running the show after next year’s General Ele...

Fable and willing

By Jonathan Werran | 07 December 2022

We need new local stories and narratives of empowerment to make devolution come alive for communi...

Resolving surface tensions

By Jonathan Werran | 22 November 2022

Greater collaboration across central and local government and wider industry to embed sustainable...

Mapping a route to clean local growth

By Jonathan Werran | 16 November 2022

Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran breaks down a new report on how local government can take...