Research shows that places like Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds are overwhelmingly preferred by growth-driving business, and lift their rural hinterlands too.
Hammond, Fox, Javid. How will a generation of politicians raised under Thatcher adapt to the new Prime Minister’s desire for an industrial strategy?
There is strong public support for powerful mayors who can take the lead on tackling the problems of our city regions.
The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.
The row over the Prime Minister’s remarks about local Associations has been mostly concocted. But the need for Party reform is real. We open a ConHome series.
The housing shortage is pushing benefit bills up in the prosperous South East. Here’s how to get them down.
A new account of Labour’s disastrous campaign provides fresh insights for Tory strategists on what we did right and where we can do better.
In total, England has enough brownfield land for one million homes. This is nowhere near enough.
British cities offer jobs and opportunity. The Government must to more to increase labour mobility to allow more people the chance to benefit from them.
Thanks to a captive market and the need for new investment, the cost of commuting has increased – a burden that must be met out of taxed and static incomes.
We won without yet breaking through in the North, urban Britain, or Scotland – but we’re now in a position to make real headway in all three.
2020 will be Labour’s last chance to turn the clock back.
Whoever forms the next government, we shouldn’t forget that the ‘Whitehall Party’ will remain in place.
Governance must take place locally, but not so locally that there is no cooperation between organically-linked neighbourhoods
Making our message attractive to urban voters who share so many of our values is absolutely essential to building a genuinely one-nation Conservative Party.