How Covid changed Scotland: Our local government must be reimagined

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Ben Wray
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The National
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Ben Wray explains why local government has to be reimagined 

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Surely genuine local government ­reform has to be on the agenda? [Craig] Dalzell says that “unfortunately, it doesn’t currently constitute a serious part of the debate”.

No-one voted for the decline of ­local government, but nonetheless it’s ­happening, and the pandemic appears to have accelerated that process. The least the Scottish public deserve in the run-up to May 5 [2022] is a proper debate over its rights and wrongs.

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