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One Year Of Labour: Full-Fat or Semi-Skimmed Devolution?
Either way, devolution is the agency of change.
One year on and the English Devolution and Community Empowerment bill landed in my in box.
With full-fat devolution now on the table, I wonder if this bill will define Starmerism? AND Will this Prime Minister be remembered for rewiring the country OR simply renaming the plugs?
What do Mayors want?
Whilst Mayors have the potential to deliver great things and real change, that doesn’t mean things can’t go wrong. It surely cannot be sustainable in the long term for Metro Mayors to be solely accountable to a Secretary of State? For the Government’s transformational Devolution Bill to succeed it must give some thought for how it plans to tick the accountability box - something which is currently missing from the list.
What does full fat devolution mean for the North of England
Launching Devo North in Manchester, Devo Agency hosted its inaugural northern network and asked, ‘What does full fat devolution mean for the North of England?’
The power to do things differently
If there is to be a devolution revolution there needs to be an agency which will inform and shape debate, one which understands what good devolution looks like, what it means, what it’s for and why devolution is the agency of change. That’s us!