
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.
From transport tech and data-driven healthcare, to creative enterprises and the services sector, we are forging ahead.
Former service personnel of working age are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as those in the UK general population.
Labour’s Regional Development Agencies were a failure. But the successor bodies are proving much more effective.
Both the type and quantity of migration that is desirable would be better decided at a more local level.
While Lancashire is in the main in Lancashire, Wigan is both in and not in, like a Schrödinger county cat.
Plus: why John Bald is wrong to be critical on this site of the Education Select Committee’s report on school exclusions.
A report published by the Centre for Social Justice today outlines four major traps that could jeopardise Britain’s employment miracle.
Not being able to blame Brussels for our problems nor look to the EU for solutions will be immensely reinvigorating.
Once free of EU regulations, the Government can finally revive Britain’s long-neglected network of regional airfields to bring regions closer to major markets.
Transport for the North can now set its own priorities and make its own plans – but Westminster must devolve more powers to allow it to reach its full potential.
Little was achieved beyond inter-authority squabbling over priorities and endless consultants’ reports. The Local Enterprise Partnerships are much better.
Expertise in this are is key to successful localism and devolution and improving our prosperity, productivity and competitiveness.
The fourth article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.
Capping the value of land adjacent to a new motorway, and recouping a charge from those who develop it, would help fund essential new roads.
More powers for Andy Street in the West Midlands should just be the start.