
The high-profile local regeneration initiative will test Burnhamism’s commitments to devolving power and empowering communities, argue Nick Mahony and Frances Northrop

Robin Mann reports on how support for both Plaid Cymru and Reform is transforming the Welsh political landscape

Joe Redmayne reflects on the role of trades councils during the 1926 general strike

Candidates and campaigners debate alternative local offers to Labour and Reform, through future alliances and those already underway

Ahead of 7 May polling day, candidates and canvassers tell RPM what the left can achieve in local and devolved government

Andy Brain reports on English councils’ accountability problem: candidates in ‘uncontested seats’ being elected into power – without a vote being cast

David Howell traces union-Labour Party relations from the aftermath of the general strike, through shaping the 1945 government, tensions under Harold Wilson to Thatcher-era marginalisation
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