In this episode Jonathan Carr-West and Ingrid Koehler talk about local elections, highlighting our new survey of council leaders, chief executives and heads of democratic services about the timing and viability of the scheduled May local elections. Ingrid speaks to Professor Toby James who has been looking at how places around the world have been running local elections and whether England is ready to run elections in May.
Links in this episode:
- Free, fair and safe: Local elections 2021
- Post-Covid Councils: Towards a new municipalism
- LGIU annual review
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