The long-awaited Conservative Green Paper on local government was unveiled this week - with a pledge from the party to be more 'localist'. But the paper has already been branded a failure by current local government minister, John Healey. Plans for local government under the Tories should have been released under former shadow communities minister, Eric Pickles, in the autumn, but a series of delays followed after it was released to county council leaders.
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