Lancashire Devolution deal A Lancashire council leader has warned against trying to renegotiate the county’s devolution deal now that Labour is in govern
Revealed: The cost of Preston Guild Hall standing empty and the path to re-openingA Lancashire council leader has warned against trying to renegotiate the county’s devolution deal now that Labour is in government.
The general election result has threatened to reopen old divisions in Lancashire over devolution, after it placed a question mark over whether Labour will implement the deal as it stands or amend it.Cllr Atkinson said of the latter prospect, which has so far been called for by five Labour district council leaders: “The current deal took a lot of time and effort to be negotiated – we would lose too much time and have to start again.
Unsurprisingly, the high-level statement offered no detail on any implications of the forthcoming legislation for the Lancashire deal, which had been poised to be put before Parliament for final approval before the snap election was called. As the LDRS revealed last week, no decision has yet been taken by the new government on the matter – including the thorny subject of whether any changes would involve the creation of an elected mayor for the county.
Only last week, the Labour leaders of Preston and Chorley councils told the LDRS that they supported the idea of a Lancashire mayor in order to improve what they regard as the underwhelming devolution agreement reached last year. The Labour former leader of South Ribble Borough Council, Paul Foster – now the South Ribble MP – has also said he will continue to push for the creation of a mayor from his new parliamentary position.
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