Clegg backs council devolution call

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said there is ‘no doubt’ that the Government needs to give councils more powers.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said there is ‘no doubt' that the Government needs to give councils more powers.

On a visit to a school last week with Sutton LBC's Lib Dem leader, Ruth Dombey, Mr Clegg said: ‘One of the key things for us in central government is to hand more powers to local governments.

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