This month Rachel Reeves announced £2.3bn in additional funding for cities and a plan to devolve – for the first time – the ...

British finance minister Rachel Reeves plans to devolve more fiscal powers, including tax control, to UK regions to boost growth and productivity.

Chancellor says Brexit may have cost 8% of UK GDP in wide-ranging Mais lecture at Bayes Business School in London which also called for AI push ...

Reeves nonetheless pledged to “liberate our regions from stifling Whitehall orthodoxies” by giving mayors and other regional ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has vowed to give English cities more power over their own finances as part of a major speech in which she also promised to realign the UK with EU rules to boost trade. In a ...

Rachel Reeves plans to end the paradox of British politics whereby local people bear the costs of growth but rarely feel the ...

Attempts to change the government's devolution legislation to get a deal for Cornwall have failed. The network of 15 councils in Essex will be abolished and replaced. The current ones will all be ...

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

Labour has so many troubles at the moment that the prospect of electoral oblivion is almost a secondary concern. Nevertheless, May 7 is coming and will bring with it elections to English councils, the ...