Austerity Britain has translated into worse lives for many people: tougher working conditions, minimal statutory services and a retraction of the local state at a time when people need it.
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Whether true or not, the UK’s political parties have failed to quash the perception that they prioritise cities.
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.
In the 1940s, Britain’s nascent welfare state was designed around male financial responsibility for their families – unmarried mothers were intentionally disregarded.
Vaughan Gething succeeds Mark Drakeford as Welsh first minister, following a vote in the Senedd.
English councils have neither the ongoing funding or the staffing needed to effectively deliver on the government’s economic development promises.
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 acknowledges each option requires UK government involvement.
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
What does the future hold for Wales and Welsh Labour in the wake of Drakeford’s resignation?
The Welsh government has taken steps to ensure that the Welsh language plays a more prominent role in welcoming refugees and migrants.
Governmental support is failing the country’s most vulnerable households. Politicians need to act now.
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?
More than a decade of austerity in English local government has squeezed councils to their utter financial limits.
When directly elected mayors doggedly advocate for their city-region, they can make things happen, regardless of budgetary and devolution constraints.
The fallout over the Scottish government’s gender recognition legislation has not happened in isolation.
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.
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.
The Scottish government wanted to trigger a second independence vote without consulting Westminster but that has been deemed not legally permissable.
The title was last held by a Welshman in the 1400s.
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Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
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Reader in Urban Planning, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Politics, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
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Professor of Political Science, Cardiff University
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Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of Public Policy, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, University of Huddersfield
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Assistant Professor in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin
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Dean of Education, School of Education and Institute for Education, Bath Spa University
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Senior Research Fellow, Law Reform and Policy Analysis, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter
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Chair in Scottish Politics, University of Aberdeen