The Green Paper on the governance of Britain launches ‘an inclusive national debate' on ‘the future of our country's constitution'.

And as part of the constitution, local government should be involved in this debate. Local government has a constitutional importance in its own right, and is critical to the themes of the paper.
tus professor at INLOGOV

 The need for limits on the powers of the central executive raises the whole issue of the powers of local government in our over-centralised system of governance.