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<p>Replacing government grants with revenue streams from taxation will not in itself reduce regional inequalities. But the political implications are radical</p><p>Following Wednesday’s budget, the Treasury minister, Torsten Bell, was <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033g98">challenged</a> by the BBC’s Evan Davis on whether its modest series of “

<p>John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth say devolving power further is up to Holyrood and Senedd – not Westminster</p><p>Scotland and Wales’s first ministers have told Andy Burnham that decisions on local devolution rest solely with their parliaments, in response to the prime minister’s push to extend English-style regional powers across the UK.</p><p>After Bur

<p>Chancellor will build on Burnham’s promise that local leaders in England will no longer have to ‘come cap in hand to Westminster’</p><p>Andy Burnham has promised that local leaders in England will no longer have to come “cap in hand to Westminster” ahead of a fresh drive to devolve spending power in next week’s budget.</p><p>In his statement on Wednesday,

<p>The prime minister promises to repair decades of regional damage. His government must redistribute wealth to close deadly inequalities</p><p>Andy Burnham’s call to abandon “<a href="https://www.cityam.com/burnham-calls-for-uk-to-abandon-40-years-of-neoliberalism/">40 years of neoliberalism</a>” rests partly on the damage that he says it&nbsp;has done to n

<p>Dick Cole is quitting as head of Mebyon Kernow, which campaigns for greater self-rule for Cornwall, after 29 years at the helm</p><p>There will be no great fanfare when Dick Cole steps down as party leader in a few days’ time.</p><p>“We’ll have an official handover at our party conference,” Cole said. “Hopefully it will be a nice event. We’ll go to the pu

On his first substantive trip to Scotland since becoming PM, he says politicians should focus on solutions "right now" and move beyond the issue of Scottish independence.