In ‘Brown’s constitutional challenge’ (The MJ, 21 June), we put forward tests to assess Gordon B...
The Lyons report is a major contribution to the development of local government in the 20th centu...
New powers to enact bye-laws without Whitehall permission could be a boon to local authorities’ ‘...
No-one has explained why it was essential to issue the White Paper on local government in October.
The Government is pushing for directly-elected mayors – and there is talk of directly-elected cab...
Few have commented on the local government White Paper’s new option for political structures – th...
George Jones and John Stewart welcome the Local Government White paper
In 1954, Labour’s pioneer of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan, wrote an article in the-then Municipal Journ...
George Jones and John Stewart – who were on the original Layfield Committee looking into local go...
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