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

LGC asked some of the leading figures in the sector to outline their hopes or predictions for the 2026. Here is the first set of responses.

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 ...

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner met current elected mayors as she announced plans to introduce devolution throughout the south Politicians in Sussex have voiced mixed views over plans to merge ...

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Committee on Constitution Review, Benjamin Kalu, emphasised on Thursday that enhancing the functionality of local governments, ...

Devolution increases the stakes locally and can also fuel tensions. Primaries in the ruling Jubilee Party and the NASA opposition. Devolution has transformed politics in Kenya, which goes to the polls ...

The leaders of two Labour controlled councils have called for May's local elections to be scrapped because of Lancashire devolution. Blackburn with Darwen Council and Hyndburn Council have held ...

House of Representatives Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Committee on Constitution Review, Benjamin Kalu, has said the committee will work for strengthening the functionality of local governments, ...

LGC asked some of the leading figures in the sector to outline their hopes or predictions for the 2026. Here is the second ...