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Tag Archives: elected Mayors
Urban autonomy? ‘City deals’ and elected mayors – part 2
Part 2: How much new power is being devolved and what strings are attached? This is part of two of this post on city deals and elected mayors. The first post can be found here. In many ways the ‘city deals’, and the accompanying emphasis on elected mayors, give a solid and welcome geographic focus [...]
Urban autonomy? ‘City deals’ and elected mayors
Part 1: City-regions and Local Enterprise Partnerships Liverpool’s city deal highlights some important questions about how cities’ potential new freedoms will fit with the wider role of cities within a region, including their role in providing jobs to a wider Travel to Work Area (TTWA). Government guidance on city deals recognises that ‘in some areas the lowest appropriate [...]
The year local government takes charge
This article was first published by Total Politics. This year, many of the coalition’s localist policies come into effect. What will this mean for how we see local politics? 2012 looks like being a big year for local politics. Strangely, this may turn out to be a mixed blessing for local government. Media attention in this country [...]
Super Thursday and elected mayors
Patrick Wintour reports on the Greg Clark’s plans to hold mayoral and police commissioner elections on the same day – Thursday 15 November, now being called ‘Super Thursday’. The government’s tactics in bringing forward elections to November seem designed to generate some momentum and interest around the country, as well as forcing the hand of those Councillors [...]
DCLG Q&A: today at 14.30
Here are the oral questions tabled to the Communities and Local Government Secretary below. The Question session will take place on today (Monday 5 December) at 14:30 and can be watched through Parliament TV Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government *1 Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): [...]
October’s edition of c’llr magazine
October’s edition of c’llr magazine is out and is available to download for free. The special feature in the edition is on children’s services and includes an interview with Children’s Minister, Tim Loughton. c’llr also includes; – Hazel Blears on the community response to the riots – Rory Palmer, Leicester’s deputy City Mayor, on the first [...]
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Government drops ‘Shadow Mayor’ plans
As Jonathan pointed out in TotalPolitics today, the Localism Bill is currently going through the House of Lords. Proposals for elected Mayors to be created in the 11 largest cities outside London (excluding Leicester, which has an elected Mayor) are highly controversial. In particular, there has been opposition from the Lords to proposals for current [...]
Tags: democracy, elected Mayors, localism bill |
The week ahead in local government
A quick look ahead to key events happening in local government this week
Elected Mayor for Leicester update – Soulsby steps down as MP to be Labour candidate
The Labour Party’s epic internal selection contest to find its candidate for the Leicester Mayoral election in May, concluded dramatically over the weekend. Sir Peter Soulsby, who has been the MP for Leicester South since 2005, but was previously council Leader for 17 years, won a five way contest, beating current council Leader Veejay Patel who [...]
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Elected Mayor races hotting up: candidates emerge in Leicester, Birmingham & Liverpool
After Eric Pickles backed down on imposing elected Mayors in 12 cities, plans are now gearing up for referenda to be held on the 5th May 2011 in: Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Wakefield. In Leicester there might be an earlier referendum. Leicester Mercurys’ political reporter David Maclean, who by the [...]
Tags: elected Mayors, Eric Pickles, referenda |
LGiU commentary on the new Conservative – Lib Dem government coalition agreement
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have published a statement outlining the agreement they have reached on a range of issues where they have previously advocated differing policies. What does it mean for local government? The LGiU fully supports political and democratic reform where this will lead to a new settlement between government and the [...]
Local council elections in 2010
UPDATED: Rallings and Thrasher say there are 176 councils with elections. The Electoral Commission say there are 166. My original post below: There are 166 councils with elections on May 6th. This includes: 32 London Boroughs, 36 Metropolitan Authorities, 20 Unitaries and 78 District Councils. In four of these councils there will also be simultaneous [...]
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Directly elected mayors: where from here?
Controversy surrounds 2 of the 12, soon to be 11 elected mayors – a fair proportion of the overall total – so where do we go from here? Well, the main political parties can’t seem to make their minds up. The Government’s proposals for a new wave of directly elected mayors were left to one [...]
Tags: conservatives, elected Mayors, hazel blears, young mayors |
Conservatives and Elected Mayors – why wait?
An interesting political challenge is emerging to the Conservative Party on their Green Paper proposals for referendums in the twelve largest cities after London to have a directly elected city-wide Mayor. The cities are: Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Wakefield, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham, Newcastle upon Tyne. The proposals have received a very muted [...]
Tags: Boris, conservatives, elected Mayors, localism |
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