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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Council chiefs cry fiscal freedom in wake of draft Scotland Bill

By Jonathan Werran | 22 January 2015

English council chiefs have responded to publication of the draft Scotland Bill by restating thei...

Hague: Barnett funding vow 'trumps all other considerations'

By Jonathan Werran | 21 January 2015

The Barnett funding formula for allocating public spending among the nations of the UK to remain ...

Big Society has failed, experts report

By Jonathan Werran | 20 January 2015

The Coalition’s Big Society project has failed on its own terms amid a continued reduction in civ...

Cities central

By Jonathan Werran | 19 January 2015

Research issued this week by the Centre for Cities think- tank shows the UK remains split into tw...

North-south growth divide becoming entrenched, think-tank warns

By Jonathan Werran | 19 January 2015

The economic gap between the south of England and the rest of the country has widened in the last...

Tower Hamlets election evidence emerges

By Jonathan Werran | 15 January 2015

Some 30 Tower Hamlets LBC staff were instructed to secure 100 votes each for Mayor Lutfur Rahman ...

Palin appointed next St Helens chief

By Jonathan Werran | 15 January 2015

St Helens MBC has appointed Mike Palin as chief executive, making the 35-year old one of the youn...

Parishes demand funding fairness from ministers

By Jonathan Werran | 14 January 2015

Parish and town council leaders have met government ministers to press their claim for a fairer f...

£6.8m aid to round up missing voters

By Jonathan Werran | 13 January 2015

Ministers have given local authorities the lion’s share of a further £10m funding to boost the nu...

Improve council fraud incentives, MPs tell DWP

By Jonathan Werran | 13 January 2015

Commons Public Accounts Committee has urged the Department for Work and Pensions to devise strong...