That’s a hammer blow to plans to deliver growth and to get power out of Whitehall and back into local communities.

Jo Stevens is the most "anti-devolution" Labour Welsh secretary in half a century, according to a former Welsh government ...

Devolution will be “default in our constitution” rather than “at the whim of a minister in Whitehall”, Angela Rayner said as she launched plans to overhaul local government. Under the reforms ...

The SNP’s depute leader Keith Brown has written to the Prime Minister saying Labour must end its “disrespect for devolution” ...

Discussions have begun ahead of the biggest transformation of local government in southern England in decades. With this month's elections cancelled, attention has turned to the devolution plans for a ...

The government's consultation into plans for priority scheme devolution and local government reorganisation in Sussex and Brighton & Hove ends this weekend People have until Sunday to give their ...

The UK Government is seeking bids from mayoral strategic authorities in England to take control of rail in their areas ...

OK, here's the pitch - it’s 2030, the UK’s been out of the EU for over a decade and a wave of regional devolution has rippled across whatever set of nations makes up the UK by then. As for you, you’ve ...

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