Tag: Alison Gardner
The best of Democratic Audit’s 2015 Devolution coverage
In the wake of the Scottish referendum, the debate around devolution in the UK, and in England more narrowly, has intensified. This post features some of Democratic Audit’s best 2015 analysis of national, regional and sub-regional devolution. Similar PostsEngland’s local elections 2018: the unusual case of Sheffield City Region’s mayoral contestThe current talks in Northern Ireland exemplify […]
Sub-regional devolution and the effects of austerity are combining to draw councils further away from communities
The local government sector has come under sustained fiscal pressure following the election of a Conservative-led Government in 2010, and is set for more after the election of a majority Conservative government in 2015. Alison Gardner argues that this, and the introduction of sub-regional levels of governance such as the reforms being rolled out in Greater […]
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