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Labour must make up its mind on decentralisation

The recent report by Labour's local government innovation taskforce articulates an eloquent case for decentralising the delivery of public services in England. Labour's policy review coordinator, Jon Cruddas, deserves credit in pushing this agenda of radical...
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Time for tax reform

If Ed Miliband is serious in his claim that this will be a 'one-term Tory government' as he asserted in the Guardian this weekend, then an alternative Queen's speech is not only desirable but necessary. As we approach the halfway point of this parliament, Labour must...
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Socialising public services

The 2020 Public Services Commission recently published our assessment of the government’s record on public service reform. What stood out for us was the failure thus far to engage citizens in establishing a new public service settlement. But this is true not only of...
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Learning to let go

When Eric Pickles brought the localism bill to parliament last January he claimed that it would ‘reverse the centralist creep of decades and replace it with local control’. It was, he declared with a flourish, ‘a triumph for democracy over bureaucracy’.

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