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Badenoch launches bid to get nine local elections rescheduled for May

Local government minister Jim McMahon laid an order earlier this week to postpone elections in several council areas.

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2025

Fact check: Are this year’s local elections being ‘cancelled’?

Full Fact looks at a number of claims about the postponement of some council elections which had been due to take place in May.

Evening Standard · Feb 7, 2025

Government ‘must draw out lessons from Thatcher-era coal pit closures’

Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for the ‘just transition’.

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2025

Councils get £700m funding boost under revised settlement

Local government minister Jim McMahon has confirmed a significant uplift in funding across local government in 2025-26.

The Independent UK · Dec 18, 2024

Government closes local authority watchdog with ‘vague’ remit

A minister said cost concerns were also a factor in the decision to close the Office for Local Government.

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2024

Minister rules out ‘supercouncils’ as council reforms announced

Local government minister Jim McMahon said local government reforms would give elected councillors ‘far more power’ to make decisions in their areas.

Evening Standard · Dec 16, 2024

Devolution plans ‘about giving power from Westminster to local leaders’ – No 10

Downing Street said the redesign was also about tackling the ‘waste’ from multiple layers of government.

Evening Standard · Dec 16, 2024

Concerns at Westminster that Chinese spy suspect able to ‘slip through the net’

Critics of the Beijing government warned that the activities of the suspect known as H6 were the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2024

Counties voice concern as council funding shake-up announced

The Government said it will move to a fairer system of allocating money as it published the local government financial settlement for next year.

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2024

Government confirms intervention over failings at ‘toxic’ council

Local government minister Jim McMahon said officials will be appointed to oversee improvements at Tower Hamlets Council.

Evening Standard · Nov 12, 2024