Growth can’t happen without devolution

The government is currently delivering decentralisation rather than genuine devolution, yet its growth agenda cannot be achieved without the latter, sector leaders have warned.

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Speaking at Room151’s LATIF conference in London, Steve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool City Region, argued that despite the push to move power away

Growth can’t happen without devolution

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