Minister Bob Neill has said that the Government is looking to local leaders to help deliver its decentralisation agenda in a new collection of essays by the New Local Government Network (NLGN).

The local government minister wrote the foreword to the new publication, which is entitled The Next Question: The future of local leadership,  and also features contributions from Birmingham City Council's leader, Cllr Mike Whitby, and Northumberland CC leader, Cllr Jeff Reid.