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Over the last year, the concepts of localism and devolution have grown to become increasingly important in the lexicon of the political class. This, in the main, is in response to communities nationwide crying out for more control over their own affairs. Yet the fact...

This week, Labour’s progressives convened in parliament, to discuss an emerging political agenda that is rising on the horizon – the politics of empowerment and ‘let it go’. ‘Let it Go: Power to the people in public services’ came on the back of a pamphlet of the same...

By 2015, for 13 years in a row the British state will have spent more than it raised in taxes. The interest we pay on that debt will have risen to £60bn a year – twice the size of the tax credits budget – and will continue to rise unless that government takes...