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FINANCE

Battle lines drawn ahead of election

By Dan Peters | 28 April 2015

Battle lines have been drawn across local government ahead of the last week of campaigning.

FINANCE

Call for devolution in Queen's Speech

By Jamie Hailstone | 28 April 2015

Town hall bosses from across the United Kingdom have joined forces to call on the next government...

ASSET MANAGEMENT

Right to Buy extension 'uncertainties' could undermine flagship Tory policy, IFS claims

24 April 2015

Leading public finance experts have warned uncertain assumptions around the Conservative’s flagsh...

WHITEHALL

Corridors of Power: Purdah drinks

21 April 2015

Dan Genial, rising fast track civil servant, is enjoying a drink during Purdah with veteran manda...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Clegg's power pledge

By Jonathan Werran | 21 April 2015

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has vowed to restore English local government’s status as a ‘p...

FINANCE

Labour would seek immediate imposition of mansion tax

21 April 2015

A Labour government would levy a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m in its first weeks...

PAY

UKIP vows to slash senior council staff and salaries

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2015

UKIP has promised to slash ‘excessive pay deals and golden handshakes for council executives’ in ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Lib Dem manifesto commits to local government fiscal freedom

15 April 2015

The Liberal Democrat manifesto has committed the party to delivering greater fiscal freedom for E...

EDUCATION

Lib Dems £2.5bn education funding boost pledge

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2015

A promise to find an extra £2.5bn for education funding by 2020 forms the centrepiece of the Libe...

WHITEHALL

The truth about pre-election pledges

By Joe Randall | 14 April 2015

Political parties promise decentralisation, but will they ever yield? Joe Randall sets out four t...

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