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Whether true or not, the UK’s political parties have failed to quash the perception that they prioritise cities.
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This service is a good first step towards a one-stop shop for easy access subnational statistics to understand local areas and how they’re changing.
The welfare state was designed around male financial responsibility for their families.
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In the 1940s, Britain’s nascent welfare state was designed around male financial responsibility for their families – unmarried mothers were intentionally disregarded.
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Vaughan Gething succeeds Mark Drakeford as Welsh first minister, following a vote in the Senedd.
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove addresses the Convention of the North in Leeds in March 2024.
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English councils have neither the ongoing funding or the staffing needed to effectively deliver on the government’s economic development promises.
Miners from different collieries gather in Port Talbot in April 1984.
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The strike saw different political factions uniting, which eventually led to a more collaborative form of politics in Wales.
The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales was set up in 2021 and has been gathering evidence since then.
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The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales acknowledges each option requires UK government involvement.
From May 2024, an elected mayor of the north-east will lead a new authority spanning Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham.
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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
Mark Drakeford has been Wales’ first minister since 2018.
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What does the future hold for Wales and Welsh Labour in the wake of Drakeford’s resignation?
The Welsh government has announced plans to make Wales a ‘nation of sanctuary’.
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The Welsh government has taken steps to ensure that the Welsh language plays a more prominent role in welcoming refugees and migrants.
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Governmental support is failing the country’s most vulnerable households. Politicians need to act now.
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Angela Rayner’s expansive policy brief faces the threat of ‘short-termism’ perhaps more than any other. If Labour win power, will Rayner be able to fight against these short-term political incentives?
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More than a decade of austerity in English local government has squeezed councils to their utter financial limits.
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham leaves a mayoral election polling station in May 2021.
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When directly elected mayors doggedly advocate for their city-region, they can make things happen, regardless of budgetary and devolution constraints.
Nicola Sturgeon.
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The fallout over the Scottish government’s gender recognition legislation has not happened in isolation.
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The UK government has vetoed Scotland’s gender recognition reform (Scotland) bill, which aims to make it easier for people to change their legal gender.
Keir Starmer with Gordon Brown and Scottish Labour party leader Anas Sarwar, both of whom served on the review panel.
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The plan to abolish the House of Lords has drawn the most attention but Labour is also proposing radical changes to how power is distributed.
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The Scottish government wanted to trigger a second independence vote without consulting Westminster but that has been deemed not legally permissable.
Prince William has been given the title of Prince of Wales.
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The title was last held by a Welshman in the 1400s.
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New Zealand’s largest city is governed by a small, remote body with only a semblance of representative democracy. Given the city’s massive challenges, is that good enough?