Corbyn must listen on elected mayors

Author: Alex Thomson, the MJ   |  

In an opinion piece for the MJ, Alex Thomson makes the case that Labour’s first crop of elected-mayors will have immense lobbying power over their party and country. The opinion piece reflects on our latest report Making Devolution Work. Read the article in full here and the report itself here.

Life is studded with ephemeral moments that need to be grasped.

So let’s pause to celebrate that local government finance – however temporarily – is sexy with the chancellor’s announcement on business rates reform – the ‘devolution revolution’ – leading front pages and TV news bulletins.

Against this revolutionary backdrop, Localis and Grant Thornton have published a report that gets under the bonnet of the devolutionary negotiations that have dominated local government’s summer.