Devolution will provide a "huge opportunity" for Cheshire and Warrington and "turbocharge" local growth, a minister has said ...

Local government minister Jim McMahon laid an order earlier this week to postpone elections in several council areas.

Councils in Staffordshire have been given six weeks to come up with initial proposals to change the county's political map ...

Jim McMahon's comments, made during Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government questions on Monday, received widespread attention as they appeared to contradict December’s English devolution ...

Jim McMahon was an adidas guy, and as such, wanted to sport his sponsor’s signifiers as often as possible. NFL Commissioner Pete Roselle wasn’t on board, so at the NFC Championship Game on ...

In a letter to councils in December 2024, local government minister Jim McMahon referred to these as elections to a “shadow unitary council”, and said this was the “usual arrangement in the ...

Local government minister Jim McMahon, responding to an urgent question in the Commons, said: “Where local elections are postponed, we’ll work with local areas to move elections to a new ...

All councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have been told to submit initial plans for new unitary authorities before the ...

Lancashire's new Combined County Authority (CCA) has been officially launched. The statutory instrument which enabled its ...

Politicians have called for former coalfields to be turned into green energy hubs to reverse the damage of the pit closures. Grahame Morris, Labour MP for Easington, said the government should focus ...

Communities minister Jim McMahon said that despite a 6.8% increase to overall local authority funding, some English councils ...