Time to lead

摘要

Political leadership of a local authority is never easy. In this period of austerity and years of unprecedented expenditure cuts, it has surely never been more challenging - or more important. Local government is a critical part of our democratic governance. Local authorities are political organisations. They require political leadership not just managerial, professional, technical or administrative - although inevitably the most effective local authorities are those in which there is both exemplar political and executive leadership complementarily working together and adding value.