Scots Tories join in call for elected mayors

Published: Wednesday, February 18th 2009

Stewart Patterson, The Herald
Scotland's Tories yesterday followed David Cameron's lead and called for elected mayors to be introduced north of the border to improve local accountability.
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Cameron’s proposals no solution to broken local politics

Published: Tuesday, February 17th 2009

The Electoral Reform Society has responded to the publication of the Conservative Green Paper ‘Control Shift: Returning Power to Local Communities’

England, that great colonising land, has itself become a colony

Published: Tuesday, February 17th 2009

George Monbiot, The Guardian
Only one of the UK's four nations is deprived of its own assembly. You need not love the place to call for it to have a parliament
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A radical power shift

Published: Tuesday, February 17th 2009

David Cameron, The Guardian
Our future depends on putting more political responsibility in the hands of local people
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Third party risk

Published: Tuesday, February 17th 2009

Julian Glover, The Guardian
A poll today puts the Tories 20 points ahead. Could Labour be about to slip behind the Lib Dems?
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Time for a change in the EU

Published: Tuesday, February 17th 2009

Gisela Stuart, Birmingham Post
Democracy itself could be at risk unless we face up to the deep flaws in the EU
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