Mayors can provide an answer to the questions of accountability raised by devolution, but they are not the only solution. These decisions should be informed by what works for local places, not by the...
Small businesses are to be exempt from business rates from next April in a move that will reduce the revenue raised – which is 50% retained by councils – by £6.7bn over the next...
Council leaders in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire have called on ministers to approve a draft devolution deal that would establish a directly elected mayor across the two counties and could create 55...
The government will only offer limited devolution to areas that do not adopt elected mayors, with places such as Cornwall needing to implement the reform if they want further powers, Treasury...
Chancellor George Osborne has set out plans for a process of devolution to cities across England, but will insist on the creation of elected mayors before Whitehall hands powers to councils.
It’s a year since elected majors were rejected by many of England’s big cities. So would local government have been in a more powerful position if the result had been different?
