Jo Stevens is the most "anti-devolution" Labour Welsh secretary in half a century, according to a former Welsh government ...

The SNP’s depute leader Keith Brown has written to the Prime Minister saying Labour must end its “disrespect for devolution” ...

Devolution will be “default in our constitution” rather than “at the whim of a minister in Whitehall”, Angela Rayner said as she launched plans to overhaul local government. Under the reforms ...

Discussions have begun ahead of the biggest transformation of local government in southern England in decades. With this month's elections cancelled, attention has turned to the devolution plans for a ...

The UK Government is seeking bids from mayoral strategic authorities in England to take control of rail in their areas ...

The UK Government has been accused of ditching “Pride in Place” for a “know-your-place attitude and treating Wales with ...

Cheshire and Warrington’s three councils have asked to be included in the government’s priority programme for devolution. The councils’ leaders have written to Local Government and English Devolution ...

Cumbria has taken a major step towards greater devolution. The Government has laid a statutory instrument in Parliament to formally establish the Cumbria Combined Authority, marking the final ...

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As anyone who has ever attempted any sort of remodelling project such as clearing out a cupboard, a kitchen extension or building a new housing estate will know, there is a period at the beginning ...

In recent years, two apparently contradictory but, in fact, complementary socio-political phenomena have reinforced each other in the European urban realm: the re-scaling of nation-states through ...

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