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Triple threat

Local government faces three key challenges in greater commercialism, local growth and health and social care integration, regardless of next May's political outcome, writes Alex Thomson.

Everyone loves a General Election. OK, maybe not everyone. But I would confidently wager that the average MJ reader is not just among the two-thirds of the electorate who bother to exercise their hard-won right to vote, but actively enjoys the election night broadcast marathon. Indeed, some will even be appearing in it.

General Elections are not the epochal events they used to be. In large part this reflects the very substantial diminution in the policy gap between the main parties.

Alex Thomson

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