English councils have neither the ongoing funding or the staffing needed to effectively deliver on the government’s economic development promises.
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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
More than a decade of austerity in English local government has squeezed councils to their utter financial limits.
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Professor in Law, University of Essex
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI), University of Birmingham