Tag: Alexandra Jones
The main parties’ race to the top on local devolution promises much – but will it deliver?
The Conservatives’ proposals for ‘Northern powerhouses’ and Labour’s Adonis report illustrate the promising nature of the emerging consensus on delivering meaningful devolution of powers from central to local and regional government. Here, the Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities think tank Alexandra Jones argues that we should encourage these developments, but also keep the […]
Relieving democratic stress: Devolution and strong cities
Although devolution is no panacea to the drivers of populism, it could bring decision-making closer to people’s lives and communities, and move towards a bottom-up rather than top-down centralised state management approach, argues Alexandra Jones. Similar PostsThe territorial politics of coronavirus: is this the hour of central government?Assessing England’s metro-mayors: a mixed pictureA mess of pottage? […]
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