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Senior figures react to Johnson's devolution vision | Local Government Chronicle (LGC)

The Guardian view on Super Thursday: Boris Johnson is unmaking a nation | Editorial

The prime minister prefers to centralise power rather than give it away. That is bad news for Britain Boris Johnson. ‘Local councils, in his view, are just battlegrounds in which to replicate national arguments.’ Photograph: Dan Kitwood/AP Boris Johnson. ‘Local councils, in his view, are just battlegrounds in which to replicate national arguments.’ Photograph: Dan Kitwood/AP Mon 10 May 2021 14.26 EDT Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 00.21 EDT Nations are not born; they are made. Whether nations last is entirely up to the people who manufactured them. This provides one important reason to pay attention to the results of last week’s “Super Thursday” elections. In Scotland, the Scottish National party, which has been in power for 14 years, increased its representation in Holyrood. In Wales, Labour upped its vote share by 4% this year, having won 27 general election victories in a row and triumphed six times in devolved polls. Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford will re

Exclusive: Jenrick moves to quell districts' plan for reorganisation referendum

Exclusive: Jenrick moves to quell districts’ plan for reorganisation referendum Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has waded into a row in Somerset between the two principal tiers of local government over districts’ plans to hold a referendum to ensure their residents’ views on reorganisation proposals are properly heard. Councils in Somerset, along with those in North Yorkshire and Cumbria, are currently undergoing a consultation process on local government reorganisation that ends on Monday. In Somerset, where the county’s proposal for a county-wide unitary is vying with the districts’ proposal for two new unitaries, the process has sparked antagonism between the two tiers, with South Somerset DC leader Val Keitch (Lib Dem) arguing the consultation process is “convoluted and complicated” and county council leader David Fothergill (Con) believing districts have “questions to answer” over some of the publicity tactics they have deployed.

Reform to ethical standards on horizon as government pledges action

All we want for Christmas are these 16 things…

Dear Father Christmas I am writing on behalf of councillors in England to ask for the things we would like you to bring us for Christmas. I apologise for it being a bit of a long list but we are quite frustrated at the moment and feel like we are on the government and public’s naughty list. It would be really nice if, for Christmas, you could bring us councillors the following so we can get on with the job we’ve been elected to do: 1 - A distinct unit of officers with research and policy skills formed in each council to provide research, policy advice, administrative and secretarial support to all councillors, irrespective of their position within the council or their membership of the majority or minority groups. Not to be used by leaders and cabinet members!