This Crisis Needs Local Solutions [Edition 2]

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TONY Travers and Andrew Gilligan are right that the present crisis provides economic opportunities for imaginative local government (16 and 19 February).

Large government has failed local economies in a similar way to that in which large banks have failed small businesses. Let's hope the best of London's leaders now become political entrepreneurs and work with local businesses and the voluntary sector to promote their local high streets.

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This Crisis Needs Local Solutions [Edition 2]

Let's start with a coalition to remove the centrally imposed five per cent increase in the business rate this year...

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