John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have called for an end to “chopping and changing” over devolution, according to a new report from former Labour minister Ed Balls.
Balls’ Harvard University and King’s College London UK inequality review brought together former UK prime ministers and chancellors to call for an end to decades of “chopping and changing” on regional policy and for a more consistent cross-party approach to be put in place.
Balls argued that Britain had finally found a system that was working, namely large local authorities typically headed by a high-profile mayor, and said both Labour and Conservatives should commit to building on it.
