{"id":9595,"date":"2015-02-18T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:41:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:41:25","slug":"core-cities-uk-calls-for-a-modern-magna-carta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9595","title":{"rendered":"Core Cities UK calls for a \u2018modern\u2019 Magna Carta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Core Cities (an organisation representing ten cities of the UK calling for greater devolution of powers, including Sheffield and Glasgow) has launched a petition calling for more freedom for cities in a modern version of the Magna Carta aimed at \u2018<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">driving prosperity, increasing equality and strengthening democracy\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Core Cities writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>The Modern Charter for Local Freedom calls for further devolution to cities and their regions and questions the right of central government to dictate so much of what local government does, and what people can decide.<\/p>\n<p>And the Core Cities UK Devolution Summit has attracted a range of high profile speakers including Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy MP and Keith Brown MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Core Cities chair Sir Richard Leese said: \u2018On the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, Core Cities UK believes it is time to think once again about how we build a modern, mature state, capable of succeeding equally at every level from the global to the local.\u00a0 Achieving this means handing some powers and functions further down the line, empowering citizens with more local choice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corecities.com\/what-we-do\/publications\/modern-charter-local-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">View more information<\/a> about the \u2018Modern Charter for local freedom\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=devolution\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on devolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=localism\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on localism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core Cities (an organisation representing ten cities of the UK calling for greater devolution of powers, including Sheffield and Glasgow) has launched a petition calling for more freedom for cities in a modern version of the Magna Carta aimed at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9595\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9596,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions\/9596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}