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#Weekend Watching 📺 At our latest event each of the panelists were asked: "If you had to choose 1⃣policy for the new government to implement, what would it be?" ⬇️Here is what they had to say 💬 You can also watch back the event in full 👉 https://hubs.la/Q02BWblb0 #GE2024 #GeneralElection #UKeconomy #EconomicResearch #SocialResearch #EconomicPolicy

📣 In case you missed it - IoD review of 2023. In the last episode of 2023 we brought together leading experts from the Institute of Directors (IoD), Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), the British Chambers of Commerce, and Make UK to discuss the most notable business policy developments of 2023 and look forward to 2024, considering the policy options ahead of the next General Election. ➡ You can listen here- https://lnkd.in/ehyJUz2M #2023review #businessadvice #policy #generalelection

Great article by 31ten Consulting, and some timely insights. I believe the challenge is wide but presents great opportunities. I think there needs to be a greater emphasis on the two major constraints within the 'system' 1) Finance - value for money, sustainability and doing more with the same 2) Workforce - balancing demand and capacity against a backdrop of increased service level demand Lots to think through...

#LeadershipTalks with Dr.Muiz Banire Distinguished readers, you are welcome to our weekly leadership discourse. Prior to my delving into the subject of today’s discourse, let me start by apologizing on behalf of the Sun Newspapers , the publisher of my weekly column for the inability to access the column either online or by circulation in the last three weeks. I understand that there is ongoing system upgrade which has paralyzed accessibility. Hopefully the glitch will be resolved soon and the previous series uploaded. I shall equally try to improvise in the interim the circulation. I just read in the Punch Newspaper how the Governors and some Local Government Chairmen have been busy frustrating the purports of the apex court decision on the financial autonomy of the Local Governments. To some of us that are familiar with the terrain, this is no news. It is difficult and nearing impossibility for the Chairmen to resist the Governors under the present arrangement. As at date, the various State Independent Electoral Commissions hardly monitor the internal democracy of the political parties, hence no serious nomination process, if any, takes place before the emergence of candidates. In virtually all the instances, candidates were handpicked and imposed on the people directly and indirectly. Consequently, to secure a ticket requires allegiance to the Governor. Secondly, the election to the Local Government Councils are still conducted by the the State Commissions that are anything but independent. To that extent, therefore, no credible election takes place in any of the States. The implication is that once you are imposed as a candidate, you are as good as the victor at the polls. In the circumstances, therefore, loyalty to the Governors is unshaken by the Chairmen. They abide by whatever instructions issued by the Governors. Enforcing the apex court's decision without going extra mile is a Herculean task. The federal government therefore needs to radically change the way of doing things by firstly ensuring that elections into the Councils are credible. This may require constitutional amendment of guaranteeing the independence of the electoral body to conduct the elections, in any way possible. Any such electoral body settled for must be independent of the Governors. In addition, the Electoral Act might need to be amended also to cover elections at the Local Government levels across the country, particularly in terms of compliance with internal democracy in the political parties. Ancillary to the above might then be the need for the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit and the anti-corruption bodies to oversight the finances of the Local Governments.

Ahead of the formation of the new Executive tomorrow, our Director Grainne Walsh looks at some of the politics behind it all. Read our blog post here: https://lnkd.in/evqfv_AX

Solid pre-election, post possible admin analysis by Vance Ginn here. Check it out. https://lnkd.in/gcW6EdNR

What’s next for local government? A big question with some interesting insights below 💡

Four blogs about the general election and the role of evidence in the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth newsletter this month. Whatever the result, the need for evidence-based policymaking will still be as important as ever. https://lnkd.in/ecvZysiV