Local Government Minister urges councils to “keep up the momentum” with devolution

Minister for Local Government, Marcus Jones has written a piece for the MJ in which he urges all councils to “keep up the momentum” with transforming and improving local services, saying that all reforms are underpinned the Government’s “most fundamental reform: devolution”. He says there is still much to be done to “reset” the balance of power between central and local government, “an environment where for too long Whitehall had strangled the life out of local decision-making and taken control away way from local people”.

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