The second of a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
Rob Stark meets a bloody end in Game of Thrones. But he won every battle he fought first – and the Greater Manchester Mayor is following his example.
Downing Street itself has been driving the moonshot, working with scientists, laboratories, companies and deliverers: a new operational system, in short.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester warns that ‘trapping’ the city in Tier Three restrictions will do more harm than good.
The duplicity from the Mayor of Greater Manchester amounts to a dire failure of leadership.
Johnson is being squeezed between dissenting local authorities, an increasingly divided Cabinet – and fundamental problems with test and trace.
Joe Anderson, Liverpool’s Mayor, and other city council leaders in the north have joined together to say that they “do not support further economic lockdowns”.
Our initiative will bring together Ministers, Mayors and council leaders, to thrash out ways of building new infrastructure during the life of this parliament.
These savings were desperately needed to make Darling’s books balance. They were put in Labour’s 2010 manifesto.
“The worst of all worlds would be an unmanaged release that then saw the virus spreading again in parts of the country.”
Bury, the West Midlands, Dudley and perhaps the Durham PCC polls are well worth keeping an eye on.
Labour has increased the Council Tax, doubled the number of senior officials, and seen Children’s Services go from “outstanding“ to being placed in special measures.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester is responding to the Prime Minister’s new commission, which aims to independently re-assess the value of the project.
Plus: Johnson, not a populist. Hunt’s beside manner. Lewis and his highly professional CCHQ team. And: the courage of 16 year old Ajay.
Our research with low-income voters in some of these areas revealed that many are not expecting miracles. They simply want better local services.