A mayor has called for greater clarity over planning powers contained in the government’s English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill. Speaking to the committee of MPs scrutinishing the ...

The government has blocked the release of information on its decision to exclude Kent CC and Medway council from its devolution fast track. The government says it would not be in the public interest ...

Devolution in Hampshire is back on the agenda after a change of political leadership in the county, according to a council leader. Efforts to secure powers and £1.14bn of investment were shelved last ...

UKIP have been dismissed as an “irrelevant band of misfits” after the party declared it would actively campaign against devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The party, which has lost ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After a tumultuous 2022, a rare consensus has broken out between the UK’s two main political parties — both the ...

How will the proposals outlined in the recent Devolution White Paper help regions to accelerate the delivery of much-need new homes? How will regional leaders collaborate more closely with the housing ...