“The North of England needs new rail lines that go East-West and North-South.”
Measuring people’s incomes needs to be part of measuring progress – but we need to be careful, because different measures give different results.
Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.
In the second piece in our mini-series, the Chair of Homes for the North argues that driving public investment in housing towards the South East is not sustainable.
We in the regions must accept that it will be up to us to provide the detailed data that will help to monitor the success of investment made.
The Whips and CCHQ should utilise the experience of Bretherton, Bradley, Clarke, Hughes and Rowley – all of whom won Labour seats in 2017.
The project has its vocal supporters, but there are many areas in the North of England which it will not help at all.
Its success in innovative industries is based on an R&D-intensive, novel-product-based, export-oriented business model. One that the UK should adopt.
Not being white remains the number one demographic predictor of not voting Tory.
In this new political battle, the greatest tension will not be left v right or even fiscal
doves v economic hawks. It will be a battle between creativity and convention.
Our nagging worry is: what about voters who may not want to get Brexit done, but are nonetheless apprehensive about Corbyn and John McDonnell’s tax plans?
Going from the metropolitan bubble in London to another one elsewhere would be pointless. What about Derby, Stoke or York instead?