In her article, The Radical Future Council chair of New Local, Professor Donna Hall, the former chief executive of Wigan Council, seeks to answer some of the questions I am sure many local authorities have on their minds. It is hard to disagree with her thinking, but I find myself asking ‘is she radical enough?

The one glaring element missing from her thinking is climate change. As I am constantly reminded by my 15-year-old son: 2030 is only 81 months away or 2,488 days to go to the first big deadline to avert the increase in global warming.