Calum Rutter

Deputy editor

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Recent articles

Burnham: End Whitehall ‘bidding culture’ to empower councils

Andy Burnham has criticised the “bidding culture” of local government funding, saying local leaders... Read more
London councils call for funding increase amid ‘eye-watering’ inflation

Inflation is set to put £400m of additional pressure on borough council budgets in London, the body... Read more
Increasing state pension age more than doubles poverty rates for 65-year-olds

Raising the state pension age from 65 to 66 pushed nearly 100,000 65-year-olds into income poverty... Read more
County council cuts nearly £700,000 of social care grants

A council has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of grants out of next year’s budget as part of... Read more
MPs claim DHSC preparing to burn £4bn of unusable PPE

A group of MPs has criticised the government’s procurement at the beginning of the Covid-19... Read more
OECD: UK to have lowest 2023 growth of all members

Economic growth in the UK is set to stagnate next year as inflation and tax rises eat into... Read more
Planned civil service job cuts ‘deeper than George Osborne’s’

Government plans to cut the civil service by 91,000 jobs in three years are more drastic than those... Read more
More funding ‘essential’ to tackle Welsh NHS waiting times backlog

The Welsh health service will need more money from the devolved government to deal with its large... Read more
Union warns industrial action ‘looks inevitable’ in Scottish council pay dispute

Council workers in Scotland look increasingly likely to take industrial action if demands for a... Read more
Government questioned on ‘complex’ levelling up funding

An MP has asked the government for clarity on where ‘levelling up’ money is being distributed... Read more

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