Cities should be trusted to get on with delivering economic growth while parliament remains distracted by Brexit, according to a group representing the UK’s main cities outside London.
City council leaders have called on the government to free urban authorities to replicate the work of visionary local government reformer Joseph Chamberlain in order to help cities prepare for Brexit.
Councils need additional fiscal freedoms following devolution of business rates in order to mitigate the risk of making local services dependent on such a volatile source of income, a report has...
The UK’s major cities have issued a joint call for a more local, place-based approach to public spending to form part of the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.
Ten of the UK’s largest cities have today launched a ‘devolution declaration’ setting out demands for the new government to deliver on city devolution.
The next government should create an independent City Devolution Commission to devolve power over public services and some taxes to every major UK conurbation by the end of the parliament, the RSA...
