The latest report from Centre for Cities highlights how an impressive record on employment has been undermined by poor productivity, stagnant wages, and the rising cost of housing.
The key problem is stagnation. Margaret Thatcher’s reforms promoted mobility and opportunity. Now we are an economy which doesn’t change enough.
AirBnB welcomes sensible regulation. But the Government must be careful not to shutter an industry that generates millions for the economy and supports tens of thousands of jobs.
An unloved compromise imposed by the Crown, even some of the capital’s defenders argue that its unimpressiveness is somehow reflective of Canada’s undistinguished history.
A timely report – from Ed Balls, no less – suggests that a lack of graduates is not the reason for our productivity deficit. Rather, our productivity deficit explains the lack of graduate-level jobs.
They are a repackaging of a timeless, even a Scrutonian, ideal: of the need for home and for neighbourhood as we make our brief passage through the world.
The second part of a mini-series on ConservativeHome this week about how the Government can help Britain’s economy to grow faster.
In England and Wales the average house cost 3.5 times average earnings in 1997, but 9.1 times earnings last year. In London it’s about 14 times. Prices in England rose 9.4 per cent last year.
The second part of a ConHome series this week on housing and planning in the wake of the Queen’s Speech.
We said Labour would consolidate rather than make dramatic gains. That proved broadly accurate.
Levelling-up education must ensure that moving on up does not have to mean moving out
Gove is ready to localise as much either as he wants to or as his colleagues will let him, or both. I hope it’s work in progress.
Some of the arguments for a directly elected or mayoral model seem to be set up against a straw man.
A remarkable amount has been achieved. Often against the odds and in the face of adversity. And certainly in circumstances far less benign than those faced by New Labour.