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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Proportional votes to come to Wales
By Dan Peters | 19 November 2020
Proportional voting will be introduced to Welsh council elections for the first time as the franc...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Councils are the counterbalance
By Claire Fox | 16 November 2020
Priorities seem to have ‘become skewed by COVID-related policy-making on all sides of politics’, ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Local government does a brilliant job in elections
By Ben Page | 11 November 2020
Ben Page 'cannot ever recall a UK election 'like the one Americans are currently fighting over'. ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
We've made strategic errors on UK elections
By Mike Bennett | 09 November 2020
Election counts need more speed and spectacle for democracy to survive the Trump effect, argues M...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Cabinet Office rules out elections delay
By Heather Jameson | 03 November 2020
The Cabinet Office has ruled out any further delays to local elections despite the complexity of ...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Shevlin suggests reorganisation alternative as rival bids threaten his council's future
By Dan Peters | 03 November 2020
A former chair of the District Councils’ Network chief executives’ group has suggested a radical ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Making Counties Count: Don't they Already?
By Colin Copus | 02 November 2020
Steve Leach and Colin Copus argue a move to county-based unitaries would ‘draw local government a...
WHITEHALL
Tax increases more likely than austerity, says Flanders
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2020
A top economist has predicted that tax increases are more likely than another bout of austerity.
WHITEHALL
Labour would adopt 'local by default' approach
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2020
A Labour government would strike a ‘new settlement between citizens and the state’ and adopt a ‘l...
WHITEHALL
Jenrick dashes county reorganisation hopes
By Dan Peters | 13 October 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has torpedoed plans for widespread reorganisation beyon...
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