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Cracking the code to central government relations

Change in the culture, institutions and processes of public adminstration at national level are essential. George Jones and John Stewart expand on how the codifying of relationships should proceed

Local government does not appear in the index of Tony Blair's 718 pages of autobiography, A Journey (2010).

It was not a subject he'd thought much about, tending to see it as an instrument to deliver public services, as if a central-government department.  Now he is travelling the world telling other countries how they should be governed, and local government is again not part of his programme.

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