The appointment of Greg Clark as Communities Secretary in the new government has signaled that devolution and a focus on cities will be an important feature of the administration’s agenda.
Clark, MP for Royal Tunbridge Wells, worked in the Department for Communities and Local Government during the early days of the Coalition where he had responsibility for decentralisation and planning policy.
Subsequently he has been minister for Cities, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and more recently Minister for Universities and Science. He is known as a moderniser and a keen advocate of localism.
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