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Anyone looking for definitive policy commitments at Labour Party Conference this week would have left Brighton feeling disappointed. The new Labour leadership deliberately eschewed any attempt to pin the party down on a whole range of…
The ‘future of the North’ has risen to the top of the political agenda in 2014, with each of the major parties engaging in a race to the top on regional and cities policy, re-balancing, and creating a ‘powerhouse economy’ outside of the…
Ed Miliband’s pledge that a Labour Government in 2015 would deliver “the biggest economic devolution of power to England's great towns and cities in a hundred years” has put cities and city regions unambiguously at the heart of the party’s…
High Speed Two continues to dominate the news agenda, but now that MPs have voted to releasing the funding for the scheme, it’s time to move on from obsessing over the minutia of ‘cost-benefit analyses’, and think far more carefully about…
In cities across the country, small to medium sized enterprises are feeling the impact of stagnating growth, as the poor performance of the national economy hits their local markets. This is a critical issue for growth and jobs across the…
Given that the UK economy is in its longest downturn for 100 years, we desperately need growth, and we need it now. Unfortunately, although there were some welcome measures included within the Chancellor's statement, an opportunity was…
By Ben Harris As I sit to write this, it is not long since Gordon Brown, his wife Sarah and his two young boys walked down the length of Downing Street for the last time. Gordon was a Prime Minister and a party leader who attracted his…
