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You can count the days to go on your two hands and once again here is our roundup of some mildly interesting election shenanigans. Plus all the usual links to more in-depth coverage in our members’ only policy briefings and other LGiU material. This week started with a bank holiday,…
So there are now less than two weeks to go until polling day. Here is our second roundup of that curious bubble we like to call election, with links to more in-depth coverage in our members’ only policy briefings and other LGiU material. Social care at the top of the…
As councils race to form administrations, Charlotte Maddix reports on how the political balance across Scotland is shaping up. More than two weeks on from the local elections, many councils have yet to form administrations. No council in Scotland – bar independent alliances in the island councils – was left in majority control…
Not long now! Over the next three weeks we are going to do the occasional roundup on the blog of what’s going on in election world with links to more in depth coverage in our members’ only policy briefings and other LGiU material. Is that a manifestation of (real) policy…
LGiU’s Chief Executive Jonathan Carr-West on how the collapse of the Triborough partnership is about more than shared services – it tells us something fundamental about what’s been happening in local government.
Live from the counting hall floor in Glasgow, LGiU Scotland Director Andy Johnston sums up the day so far.
This election day, LGiU Scotland Director Andy Johnston talks new councillors, unexpected (and expected) outcomes and what’s in store for local government after these elections. Today, Scotland is going to the polls in its first local elections since 2012. Inevitably, the snap General Election called for June has both distracted from…
Peter Stanyon, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA), asks you to spare a thought for all those who work behind the scenes to bring us the mechanics of democracy.
Johanna Boyd, the first woman to lead Stirling Council and the youngest Council Leader in Scotland, blogs for us on what a week in the life of a Leader looks like. There is no such thing as a typical week for either a councillor or a Council Leader and that…
Catherine Fieschi, Executive Director of Counterpoint, sees signs of a new force in French politics as Emmanuel Macron has found a formula that appeals to voters from different ends of the spectrum. As French voters hurtle towards the 23 April and the first round of the French presidential election, the threat from the…