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Power grab or driver of change? The Devolution Bill debated

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Will the English Devolution Bill create a “cohort of puppet mayors” or deliver the “biggest transfer of power in a generation”? That question was debated in Parliament this week as MPs voted in favour of the Bill by a margin of 365 to 164 in its second reading.

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Shadow secretary of state James Cleverly said the full title of the Bill – the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill – was “straight

‘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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