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To win an overall majority Labour must break with tradition and court the left behind voters of the deep countryside, argues Christabel Edwards  In October 1992 Michael Heseltine, then secretary of state for trade and industry, announced the closure of thirty of the...

In recent years my campaigning activity has been limited, but having been made redundant from local government I was able at last to play an active role at the general election this year. I hit the streets with gusto wearing my ex-council demographer hat to find out...

Devolution has been in vogue since the Scottish independence referendum; local leaders seized their opportunity to demand more powers from Westminster and the response they got from both Tories and Labour was generally favourable. But the debate in England has been...

Devolution to counties is the lesser-known cousin of city deals, but counties are clamouring for it, even if their agenda is not quite in synch with Westminster. If government is serious (and it should be) about devolution from the ground up then, says new report from...