Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at the impact of devolution on growing volatility of party political allegiance ...

Someone who has seen a huge change in that year is Cllr Leigh Frost. Previously the leader of the opposition Liberal Democrat ...

The London Treasury did agree to write-off that ‘debt’ (conditional on the Executive raising £113m of revenues) as part of ...

The government has told local authorities that it could agree to postpone elections in areas affected by local government ...

Cumbria has taken a major step towards greater devolution. The Government has laid a statutory instrument in Parliament to formally establish the Cumbria Combined Authority, marking the final ...

Writing for Belfast Live, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, reflects on how Christmas should be a moment to recommit to peace, prosperity and cooperation in Northern Ireland ...

Late last week, council leaders and directly elected mayors in 62 affected council areas received an unexpected letter from Local Government Minister Alison McGovern. The contents of that letter were ...

This weekend an international gathering will take important first steps in linking the new experiments together around a shared agenda.

The firm announced it would be withdrawing from the government’s nationwide price cap – citing the pricing was no longer ...

What is needed now is a serious engagement with the shifting tectonic plates of a new political era, but in conjunction with ...