
Andy Street: The West Midlands Local Industrial Strategy ensures we are the workshop of the modern world
From transport tech and data-driven healthcare, to creative enterprises and the services sector, we are forging ahead.
Andy Street is the Conservative candidate for the West Midlands mayoralty, and a former managing director of John Lewis.
Follow @From transport tech and data-driven healthcare, to creative enterprises and the services sector, we are forging ahead.
We need to take a dynamic new approach to our High Streets with ambitious thinking. The future is not just retail.
In the West Midlands, investment decisions have been deferred. We need to be able to push ahead with new trade arrangements around the globe.
It is a sad and all-too-obvious fact that most of the decision makers I meet in my role as Mayor are people who look like me.
Ultimately, we are working to ‘design out’ homelessness entirely, by helping at-risk people before they get to a crisis point.
Former service personnel of working age are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as those in the UK general population.
Nevertheless, tax alone won’t solve our challenge. Instead we must reshape the high street experience – as we’re starting to do in the West Midlands.
Our new fortnightly columnist on a renaissance which “through teamwork and shared vision, is producing real results”.
It’s about leadership; it’s about making a success of Brexit, and it’s about ending that litany of Labour failure.