FAMILIES could one day get some of their tax money back under Andy Burnham’s devolution shake-up. The PM is expected to unveil plans tomorrow to hand England‘s regional mayors more control over the ...

Rabbi Jeff Newman, David Williams and Tom Carr respond to an editorial on the new prime minister’s plans to decentralise power Your editorial (22 July) rightly identifies the structural paradox at the ...

THE debate over Islamabad’s reluctance to fully let go of devolved subjects has been running since 2010. But it has made little difference to the governments that have come and gone in the meantime.

Manchester shows that real change in the social determinants of health is possible, write Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen Andy Burnham, the new prime minister, faces considerable challenges, but ...

When it comes to driving an agenda from No 10, the prime minister seems to have learned important lessons from his predecessor’s failure Before entering Downing Street, Andy Burnham cited the ...

No 10 North will take over responsibilities for local economic growth and devolution strategy from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. The new body will also take local economic ...

As Andy Burnham eyes Number 10, Colin Copus, Emeritus Professor of Local Politics at De Montfort University and Visiting Professor and Ghent University, argues he should pause local government ...

The new PM will have to empower senior officials delivering devolution to tame Sir Humphrey, writes the associate dean, School of Public Policy, at the LSE. Andy Burnham has made it clear that ...

Four presidents have been inaugurated there, three legislatures sat there, and today, it houses the artistic heritage of the nation. It was built as an act of native defiance, and its inauguration was ...