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6 May 22
This week’s local elections packed a few surprises. PF examines the results in authorities whose finance departments have been in the news during recent months.
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29 Apr 21
The High Court has dismissed an attempt to allow council meetings in England to be held online past 7 May when existing Covid-19 legislation expires.
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5 Feb 21
Local authorities in England will receive around £15m in additional funding to help hold safe council elections, after the government confirmed polling will take place on 6 May.
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25 Jan 21
Two-thirds of councils in England say additional ring-fenced funding from central government is needed to run safe local elections in May.
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2 Oct 19
Reducing the number of councillors in local government could make savings, a conference panel has said.
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11 Jun 19
Last month’s local elections in England showed a rise in popularity of independents addressing local issues - but what we need is top-down change, writes communities and regeneration writer...
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7 May 19
Last week’s local elections were more eventful than expected but were still dominated by national politics rather than community issues, says LGiU’s Jonathan Carr-West.
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6 May 19
Suddenly having to prepare for unexpected European Parliament elections - soon after the local elections - has caused a headache for electoral administrators, says the Association of...
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3 May 19
Localis’ Jonathan Werran looks at the early results of the local elections and considers how they may impact local growth and prosperity.
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3 May 19
Early results from this year’s local elections showed public backlash against Britain’s two main parties with Liberal Democrats making strides.
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23 Apr 19
England is facing “democracy deserts” in next week’s local elections with 148 seats going totally uncontested, according to the Electoral Reform Society.
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14 Feb 19
The government has rejected plans to devolve powers and funding to Yorkshire.
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10 Sep 18
The proportion of women elected to local government in England went up just three percentage points between the elections in 2014 and 2018, analysis released today has revealed.
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4 May 18
We will be updating this story through the day.Please see here for our pre-election coverage.
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25 Apr 18
Anti-Semitism, Brexit, Windrush and austerity. Dominic Brady takes a look at how this mix of national and local issues are likely to play out in the elections next month.
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13 Feb 18
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed plans to condense four Suffolk councils into two new authorities.
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29 Jan 18
The Welsh Government has confirmed it is to grant voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds in local authority elections.
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21 Aug 17
More than 3,000 women need to be elected as councillors if the gender imbalance across local government is to be rectified, the IPPR think-tank has said.
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23 May 17
Following May’s local elections, it looks almost certain that the Tories will win the general election. The question is how well or badly Labour will do
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19 May 17
Inter-party acrimony, fuelled by the general election campaign, has left the formation of new local authority administrations in chaos across much of Scotland.
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8 May 17
A three-year split in the national body representing Scottish local government looks set to end next month, as a consequence of the Labour vote collapse at last week’s local elections.
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5 May 17
Labour has lost municipal control of Glasgow, its innermost Scottish heartland for much of the 20th century.
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5 May 17
General election manifestos must commit to giving local councils the funds they need to provide vital services, the Local Government Association has said.
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5 May 17
The Conservatives have made gains in the local elections while Ukip, Labour and Liberal Democrats suffered a “bad night”.
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3 May 17
National parliamentary candidates have been out with prospective councillors campaigning in the final hours before tomorrow’s local elections.