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Posts Tagged: Northern Powerhouse

Jonathan Gullis and Abi Brown: Why the Lords should move to Stoke

The authors reply to William Atkinson – who suggested a week ago on this site that it should not.

By Jonathan Gullis | 23 May 2022

Places need power if they’re to level up

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.

By Paul Goodman | 3 February 2022

Interview: George Osborne – “Whatever you’re doing in terms of devolution, double it. In terms of local taxation, double it.”

In the run up to the White Paper on Levelling Up, our interview with the former Chancellor opens this week’s ConHome series on localism.

By Andrew Gimson and Paul Goodman | 29 November 2021

David Gauke: Oomph and optimism don’t always vanquish the doomsters and gloomsters

Here are six recent examples of how the Prime Minister has been mugged by reality.

By David Gauke | 22 November 2021

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs speech: Johnson showed fighting spirit, but many of his troops stayed away

The Prime Minister engaged in demeaning exchanges with the Leader of the Opposition, but will be worried by a lack of support on his own side.

By Andrew Gimson | 17 November 2021

Jonathan Werran: More rail investment won’t lead to recovery without more local governance

The final piece in a ConservativeHome mini-series this week on the railways after Covid.

By Jonathan Werran | 22 April 2021

“We have been terrific at pure research, and useless at translational research.” What our industrial strategy should aim to change.

The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.

By Paul Goodman | 12 February 2021 | 36 comments

ConservativeHome presents ‘The North’s Economic Recovery – an evening with the NRG’

Our next live online event features Jake Berry, Dehenna Davison and John Stevenson, leading lights of the Northern Research Group.

By Mark Wallace | 11 December 2020 | 15 comments

Paul Howell: CCHQ North will only work if party members feel real ownership of it

We need a dedicated campaign team, treasurers to build a fighting fund, a mechanism for MPs to feed in ideas – and a Northern Party Board.

By Paul Howell MP | 22 October 2020

Katherine Fletcher: Green Northern Powerhouse, anyone? It’s a big yes from me.

The Government is committed to both levelling up and continuing the UK’s leadership in tackling climate change. Both must happen together.

By Katherine Fletcher MP | 13 March 2020 | 48 comments

“Seriously concerning.” “A Gordon Brown-style budget”. Centre-right think tanks resist the Budget’s main platform.

But some free marketeers are concerned about the huge borrowing rise and the reliance on “bureaucrats picking winners.”

By Harry Phibbs | 11 March 2020 | 53 comments

WATCH: Barclay is asked for his “gut feeling” on whether HS2 will go ahead. “Yes.”

Marr puts the argument to the Brexit Secretary that the project’s costs are running out of control.

26 January 2020 | 26 comments

Ali Demirbag: A post-Brexit visa regime must encourage the brightest and the best to travel to the UK on business

We need to control long-term immigration but also make it easier for entrepreneurs to visit the UK so that they can invest in and work with British companies.

By Ali Demirbag | 18 January 2020 | 55 comments

Andrew Smith: The next Conservative Government can deliver for the North by investing in regeneration.

I hope that we will see more of the Chancellor during the campaign explaining how his plans can help support investment to boost productivity.

By Cllr Andrew Smith | 21 November 2019 | 25 comments

Robert Halfon: Old Etonian Johnson now drives a white van

Raising national insurance, fewer “sin taxes”, public sector pay rises, more schools spending – all are part of his programme.

By Robert Halfon MP | 3 July 2019 | 41 comments

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