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 ...

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

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

Full Fact looks at a number of claims about the postponement of some council elections which had been due to take place in ...

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 ...

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

The government has set a "very high bar" for delaying local elections, local government minister Jim McMahon told MPs this week. An urgent question was brought by shadow local government minster David ...

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 ...

Local government minister Jim McMahon said it was "both necessary and expedient" to intervene as the council had failed to improve in a number of areas. An inspection report last year found that a ...