One of the two new unitary authorities confirmed for Surrey could be saddled with billions of pounds of debt before it has ...

Government has confirmed plans for local government reorganisation in Surrey, announcing that two new unitary councils will ...

Five different proposals for revamping Staffordshire’s political map have now come forward. The government has told councils ...

Proposals will be submitted to the government by 28 November. Gloucestershire County Council leader Lisa Spivey, who is ...

The options, which will be discussed by councillors across the county throughout November, include a single unitary authority ...

The government has been asked to delay a councils shake-up that will axe all of Lancashire's local authorities, amid a ...

“We’re just not visible from Norwich.” Those are the words of West Norfolk Council leader Alistair Beales, who has expressed ...

While former President Barack Obama sometimes invoked Article II executive power in controversial ways, those moves are ...

Surrey will be divided into two unitary councils, it has been announced, after the Government made its first major decision ...

Shropshire Council's projected overspend has grown to £50m and the unitary said it needs exceptional financial support in this financial year to avoid ...

Plans to make the biggest change in Gloucestershire’s local government structure for 51 years have taken a key step forward.

But in its most basic version, the unitary executive theory claims that whatever the federal government does that is executive in nature – from implementing and enforcing laws to managing most of what ...