A Labour MP has declared he is “Cornish, not English” and has urged people from his Cornwall to be “loud and proud” of their identity. Speaking to the House of Commons during a debate on the English ...

Changes to English devolution could see the governance of Northumberland Fire and Rescue transferred to the North East Mayor.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced that it will publish an English Devolution White Paper today (16 December) including plans to give regional mayors new ...

Heavyweight local government leaders in the Lords are pushing the government to remove super-centralising clause 59 from the English Devolution & ...

The UK Government is seeking to devolve rail powers to mayoral regions in England while steadfastly rejecting calls for rail infrastructure to be devolved to Wales. Following the English Devolution ...

The government has launched consultations on devolution proposals to establish mayoral combined authorities or mayoral combined county authorities in six English locations. The areas that have joined ...

This report looks at the democratic implications of the government’s agenda for local government unitarisation under the English devolution and community e ...

Over the past twenty years, I’ve had the chance to observe a remarkable experiment in urban governance reform: England’s efforts to devolve more power to local decisionmakers through metro mayors, ...

The English Devolution White Paper gives us the potential to build homes and communities based on local knowledge and meaningful collaboration, writes Nick Atkin, chief executive of Yorkshire Housing ...

Years of political turbulence, economic shocks and the failure to ‘level up’ as pledged have turned English devolution into a key political and constitutional issue ...

Jim McMahon Jim McMahon Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution Jim McMahon speaking during a visit to Southampton on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Picture: LDRS Jim McMahon Jim ...