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Growth can’t happen without devolution

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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

‘Half-baked’ plans to overhaul Scottish local government will lead to significant financial costs that have not been thought through and risk repeating the flawed process of local government reorganisation (LGR) in England, ministers have been warned.

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