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POLICY AND POLITICS

4 wheel drive woman on... the Tory leadership race

27 July 2022

Oh Tarquin, I’m not sure I can sit through yet another televised debate between the Conservative ...

WHITEHALL

Think tank calls for beefed up levelling up

By Paul Marinko | 26 July 2022

A think tank has demanded the next government reverse council funding cuts and beef up the levell...

DEVOLUTION

Time for clarity

By Sir Bob Neill | 26 July 2022

With the contenders for the Conservative Party leadership race narrowed down to two, staunch Rish...

SOCIAL CARE

A tale of two factions

By Martin Ford | 26 July 2022

As the Tory leadership candidates start setting out their campaign policies, how much are they re...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Social care and the leadership contest: what next?

25 July 2022

Martin Routledge looks at what people, councils and support providers need from the Conservative ...

COUNCILLORS

Tory leadership candidates pitch to councillors

By Paul Marinko | 21 July 2022

Upper tier councils apparently left ‘with a smile on their faces’ after the two remaining candida...

PLANNING

Government to gain 'blank cheque' planning powers

By Martin Ford | 20 July 2022

A controversial new clause in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will hand more powers over p...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Saying it as it is

19 July 2022

Diary is based just a hop, skip and a jump away from the Houses of Parliament.

FINANCE

As bad as rotten boroughs

By Michael Burton | 19 July 2022

We did not create universal suffrage in order for 0.5% of the electorate to vote for the next Pri...

COVID

Time for a system reset

By Paul O’Brien | 19 July 2022

Paul O'Brien says the new Prime Minister should think about a system reset away from a failed cen...