Change may come through evolution, but that takes thousands of years. Most real rapid transition needs a big bang, and right now the local government universe keeps exploding.

The Scottish referendum kick-started devolution – in England as well as the devolved nations – in a way that never seemed possible. Now we have the fallout of the EU referendum – and if Greg Clark's mood music at the LGA conference is anything to go by, local government is to be pushed further into the fore.