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Tag Archives: regions
Conservative manifesto: local government key points
The Conservative Party General Election manifesto is published today. This is an at a glance guide on the key points for local government and local public services. “We believe that if you decentralise power, you get better results and better value for money. So the plans set out in this manifesto represent an unprecedented redistribution [...]
Tags: conservatives, council tax, councils, democracy, localism, regions |
Do Regions Matter?
Our regions conference yesterday went with a fizz. I started the event by proposing ‘five principles for a new debate’: Regional arrangements should be voluntary and locally self defined – not dictated by the EU or by Whitehall Democracy and accountability of regions should be vested in local government, accountable to the people through locally elected [...]
Tags: Bob Neil, conservatives, localism, recession, regions, Rosie Winterton |
Cigarettes and alcohol? What about efficiencies and MAAs?
Humans are adept at hiding from inconvenient truths, but I sense a change in the national mood. Sustained economic growth has meant that post-budget gloom in recent times has been caused mostly by excise duty on cigarettes and alcohol. Today the headlines are about tax rises, unemployment, and the Chancellor’s two-pronged gamble on future – [...]
Tags: budget, chancellor, efficiencies, housing, maas, recession, regions |
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