Councils have been kept in the dark and starved of funds. Power must be dispersed, says Guardian columnist John Harris
And so it is that we reach a watershed point in the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, manifested in a tangle of stories all unified by vivid themes: power concentrated at the centre, a lack of meaningful checks and balances, and the exposure by incompetence and arrogance of the mess beneath.
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