Joe Lepper 08 September 2026

Healey: Fiscal devolution needed for successful cities

Fiscal devolution is needed to ‘transfer power and resources from Whitehall to our regions', chancellor John Healey has insisted.

Delivering his first major speech since being appointed chancellor, he said fiscal devolution would enable UK cities to ‘emulate the success of those in France or Germany'.

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