{"id":71968,"date":"2016-07-05T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=af7bfda741fd9b9d35b6600c8f76f746"},"modified":"2016-07-05T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:29:46","slug":"press-release-whitehall-must-not-be-the-default-destination-for-repatriated-eu-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71968","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Whitehall must not be the default destination for repatriated EU powers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As powers return from Brussels, Communities Secretary Greg Clark today (5 July 2016) argued that Whitehall cannot be their \u201cdefault destination\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Local Government Association annual conference<\/a> in Bournemouth, Mr Clark confirmed that local government will have a seat at the negotiating table to agree the UK\u2019s exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n

He tasked chairman of the LGA<\/abbr>, Lord Porter, to pull together a team of councillors representing all parties and all parts of the country to \u201cmake good use of this seat at the table\u201d.<\/p>\n

Greg Clark said:<\/p>\n

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The response to leaving the European Union has to be a radically expanded role for local government. When we are transferring powers from the EU to Britain I think it is essential that Whitehall is not the default destination for them.<\/p>\n

For years we have been urging subsidiarity \u2013 the principle that power is held as close to the people as possible \u2013 on the European Union.<\/p>\n

We now must apply it at home and ask first whether powers and funds can be transferred to local government.<\/p>\n

That means that local government must be represented at the negotiating table. I argued successfully for English local government to be part of the negotiations on the terms of our exit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As powers return from Brussels, Communities Secretary Greg Clark argues that Whitehall cannot be their \u201cdefault destination\u201d.<\/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\/71968"}],"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=71968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}