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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Can mayoral polls help Tories buck their losing trend?

By Jonathan Werran | 03 May 2024

Jonathan Werran picks out the highlights from the local and mayoral poll results so far, and he a...

1984 and all that

By Jonathan Werran | 30 April 2024

Forty years from the passing of the Rates Act, how relevant are the provisions designed to give c...

Building consent

By Jonathan Werran | 08 April 2024

As Localis publishes an essay collection looking at how homes and developments may be built in ha...

Governing the local AI revolution

By Amardeep Gill | 13 March 2024

A nuanced approach to governance is needed to successfully navigate the challenge of integrating ...

Tacking the scourge of waste crime

By Jonathan Werran | 12 March 2024

Government should introduce an intermediate tax band to bridge the gap between standard and lower...

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...