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.

By MJ Correspondent | 20 June 2014

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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