Conrad Hall: a central/local tension is the cause of the financial crisis

The local government financial crisis has not been caused by a lack of funding: that’s just a symptom of the inherent conflict of having independent local authorities within a highly centralised state, argues Conrad Hall.

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In the first of a two-part article written for Room151, the corporate director of resources at the London Borough of Newham, outlines the ‘impossible

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