{"id":47518,"date":"2014-09-12T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1274db0f7a36c8df212e2dfba290ebb1"},"modified":"2014-09-12T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T09:05:00","slug":"news-story-northern-futures-nick-clegg-calls-for-decentralisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47518","title":{"rendered":"News story: Northern Futures: Nick Clegg calls for decentralisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Later today (12 September 2014) he will speak at an event hosted by <abbr title=\"Institute for Public Policy Research\">IPPR<\/abbr> North in Sheffield, where he will set out his vision. The speech follows the launch of the Deputy Prime Minister\u2019s <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/northernfutures.dialogue-app.com\/\">Northern Futures project<\/a> in July \u2013 a call for ideas on ways to create an economic hub in the north of England. <\/p>\n<p>The Northern Futures project is a new approach to policy-making. Rather than decisions just being made by politicians and civil servants in Whitehall, Nick Clegg is asking the people who live and work in the North to play a more active role and put forward their ideas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/northernfutures.dialogue-app.com\/\">Northern Futures: have your say.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is expected to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If ever there was a time to push for action on decentralisation, it\u2019s now.<\/p>\n<p>You only need look at how the Scottish Referendum debate has re-energised people\u2019s interest and engagement in politics over the last few weeks to see that this is an idea whose time has come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Over the last decades, we\u2019ve seen a wave of new powers shifting out to every nation of the UK, except England.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To have your say on economic growth in the North, visit the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/northernfutures.dialogue-app.com\/\">Northern Futures<\/a> project or follow <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/north_futures\">@North_Futures<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Clegg is calling for decentralisation and devolution for the North of England and inviting ideas through the Northern Futures project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47562,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47518\/revisions\/47562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}