The Prime Minister’s speech has dominated the headlines from Labour Party Conference this week. An emotional delivery and big pledges on the triple lock, social care and electoral reform have set the ...

LGIU's analysis of why rewiring the state needs local government to play a key role and recommendations to make that possible.

The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?

Report proposes mayoral strategic authorities should take over 'bureaucratic and distrusted' public employment service

Why we need to scrap Jobcentre Plus and devolve employment support

Britain’s employment support system is failing the people who need it most. Its backbone – Jobcentre Plus – remains a highly centralised, one-size-fits-all institution, despite the importance of local...

Britain’s employment support system is failing the people who need it most. Its backbone – Jobcentre Plus – remains a highly centralised, one-size-fits-all institution, despite the importance of local...

England has long been outlier when it comes to tax centralisation. Central government in the UK raises over 90 per cent of overall revenues compared to an average of 53.2 per cent across OECD countrie...

Mayors and local leaders will be given new powers with a levy on overnight stays as part of a devolution drive to shift power out of Westminster.

Civil service performance reform is long overdue. Here's how Burnham can make it stick

What the state capacity field can learn from metascience

The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month.

Devolution is moving into a new phase — but its institutional, practical and political implications are only beginning to emerge.

Since Charter 88, democratisation efforts in the UK have focused on constitutional reform to change the internal structures of the Westminster state. Today, however, the major challenge for democracy...

"As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham has promised to take power out of Westminster into every postcode in the land. This report sets out some excellent ideas about how this could be done - backing mayors ...

Prime minister’s opening devolution gambit does not lack ambition

The PM will set out his policy on fiscal devolution on Friday as part of his drive to deliver 'growth in every postcode' - but some areas could get a bigger chunk of cash

England has long been outlier when it comes to tax centralisation. Central government in the UK raises over 90 per cent of overall revenues compared to an average of 53.2 per cent across OECD countrie...

England has long been outlier when it comes to tax centralisation. Central government in the UK raises over 90 per cent of overall revenues compared to an average of 53.2 per cent across OECD countrie...

"As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham has promised to take power out of Westminster into every postcode in the land. This report sets out some excellent ideas about how this could be done - backing mayors ...

As the prospect of nationalist First Ministers across the UK’s devolved governments grows stronger, Alex Walker examines whether Labour’s promised ‘reset’ of intergovernmental relations can withstand ...

London-based civil servants willing to move north have been told they will be offered relocation packages, the BBC understands.

A plan for the design, establishment, and operation of No 10 North so that it can drive a new era of devolution.