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High time for a statute of local rights

A new constitutional settlement is needed to overcome the command and control attitudes of central government departments which have little respect for councils, suggest George Jones and John Stewart

A new constitutional settlement is needed to overcome the command and control attitudes of central government departments which have little respect for councils, suggest George Jones and John Stewart

We have called for a constitutional settlement to govern relationships between central and local government before three recent parliamentary committee inquiries.

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