Elections

Latest Elections

REORGANISATION

Tewkesbury councillors advised to scrap name change

By Ellie Ames | 21 January 2025

Officers have recommended that Tewkesbury BC abandons the process of changing its name after local government reorganisation plans were announced.

DEVOLUTION

Mayors and the devo dilemma

By Mark Sandford | 20 November 2024

Mark Sandford sets out the arguments made for and against mayors, and looks at ways to shift the ...

POLITICS

A lesson from America

By Barry Quirk | 08 November 2024

Barry Quirk offers his perspective on the build-up to the election of America’s President, and as...

IMPROVEMENT

Counties delay peer challenges

By Dan Peters | 06 November 2024

English county councils appear to be putting off inviting peer challenges from the Local Governme...

LEADERSHIP

That's what gets results

By By Kathy O’Leary | 04 October 2024

Kathy O'Leary reflects on the groundwork put in over the (cruel) summer with Stroud DC's new admi...

ETHICS

We have put up with poor standards for too long

22 July 2024

The new Government approach strikes a different tone, says Graeme McDonald.

GENERAL ELECTION

Elections' Unsung Heroes

By Baroness Sharon Taylor OBE | 17 July 2024

Baroness Sharon Taylor celebrates the unheralded stalwarts who ensure polling day goes without a ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

To govern is to choose

By Andrew Carter | 08 July 2024

The new Government has a choice to use its mandate to make the tough decisions to pursue growth, ...

GENERAL ELECTION

Election reflection

By Ian Miller | 08 July 2024

Ian Miller offers his personal reflections on polling day and the count in Wyre Forest, and he ma...

Elections officials raise concerns over abuse

By Martin Ford | 05 July 2024

Concerns have been raised over ‘unacceptable behaviour’ faced by officials during the General Ele...

ELECTIONS

Badenoch accuses council of 'potentially' disenfranchising voters

By Martin Ford | 05 July 2024

Business secretary Kemi Badenoch has accused Uttlesford DC of ‘potentially' disenfranchising thou...

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