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The leader of the County Durham Labour Party has fended off competition to be re-elected for a third term.

Gordon Brown's report for the Labour party envisages a step change in central/local relations, but is unlikely to excite the public, writes LGC editor

The Local Government Association has agreed to give a “back seat” to directly lobbying for devolution after the government changed its policy priorities, with one senior Tory declaring the former devolution process "pretty well dead". The government’s scrapping of plans for a devolution white paper this year – and subsuming this work into a broader levelling up white paper – “suggests an opportunity to review the board’s work and how it might most effectively influence this new agenda”, according to a paper to yesterday's LGA people and places board meeting. LGA officers “su...

ONE of Prime Minister’s top aides Dominic Cummings left his jobs at Downing Street amid bitter in-fighting last year and has now made a damning…