Elections

By Jonathan Carr-West | 25 May 2016

Dr Jonathan Carr-West says recent elections prove local democracy requires both greater recogniti...

FINANCE

Welsh reorganisation map ditched

By Jamie Hailstone | 24 May 2016

The Welsh first minister has conceded his administration may go back to the drawing board over lo...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Local democracy makers

By Dr Philip Lloyd-Williams | 23 May 2016

As council constitutions are redrawn following the local elections, officers are swiftly put into...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

A whisker of power

17 May 2016

Sheffield City Council’s membership of the Local Government Association was doing three choruses ...

All a matter of perception

By Alex Thomson | 17 May 2016

Alex Thomson examines the metro mayor elections set for 2017 and asks whether the races can shift...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

It's EUr turn to scoff

17 May 2016

Chief executives and returning officers should have recovered from the local elections by now but...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Barnet 'could not run a whelk stall' let alone referendum

By William Eichler | 13 May 2016

Barnet LBC should not be allowed to oversee the European Union (EU) referendum after the ‘chaos’ ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Lawyers still wrangling over LGA control

By Heather Jameson | 13 May 2016

The chairmanship of the Local Government Association remains in question as lawyers are still wra...

HUMOUR

Corridors of power: Local elections

11 May 2016

Conservative Central Office veteran Justin Strange is discussing the local election results with ...

ELECTIONS

And the ice have it

11 May 2016

Local election turnout has all but frozen in recent decades, which is why ice cream giant Ben and...

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