
Andy Street: How thinking green, and levelling up, can insulate against future cost-of-living shocks
From new housebuilding techniques to green manufacturing, the West Midlands is leading the way towards greater security.
From new housebuilding techniques to green manufacturing, the West Midlands is leading the way towards greater security.
In 1979, the Nationalists helped Thatcher oust Labour and got smashed. They won’t help the Prime Minister.
Also: it looks like it will be a good day for Labour in both Wales and Scotland as Douglas Ross struggles to make headway.
A judge-led enquiry into the ferry scandal and a unified national census are obvious starting points.
London has set a pattern for big talk and no action, but that this seems a hostile leak may be grounds to take it seriously.
Also: Rees-Mogg once again talks tough on the Protocol – but does the Government really have the will to act?
Also: Sturgeon likened to Trump after she bans print journalists from SNP launch event.
Ministers must not forget that parts of the South East, including some coastal communities, are as in need of attention as anywhere else.
Watch in particular for interaction between Ukrainian refugees and small boats as the year lengthens.
Also: as Scottish Labour ditch the traditional rose, when will the national parties overhaul their ageing brands?
His call for a stronger British state reflects the thinking of many Conservatives… but not, yet, the Government’s actual policy.
With traditional cluelessness, Westminster devolved planning policy without a carve-out for vital national infrastructure projects.
Better integration with academic courses, more employer involvement, and a clearer balance between local and national oversight would all help.
Also: devolved administrations cling tight to Covid powers; Lewis raises prospect of prosecuting terrorists; SNP retreat from pension lie.
The DUP has suspended checks and Stormont is on the brink of collapse; if Truss cannot secure concessions, Johnson must act.