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Posts Tagged: Regionalism

Prospects for the economy 2) Andy Silvester: The fundamentals are strong. But confidence is in shorter supply.

Doomsday predictions remain overblown, but the real, specific concerns of business are worth listening to nonetheless.

By Andy Silvester | 5 July 2017 | 32 comments

Judy Terry: The Local Enterprise Partnerships are a Conservative success story

They provide much better value for money than Labour’s unwieldy Regional Development Agencies managed.

By Judy Terry | 11 May 2017 | 4 comments

Free marketeers and interventionists battle for the soul of the Conservative manifesto

The former fear that it will revive what they believe are business-unfriendly ideas about foreign takeovers and workers on boards.

By Paul Goodman | 28 April 2017 | 146 comments

Sean Worth: The right industrial strategy could pay electoral dividends

Downing Street can win votes in the regions without resorting to Blair’s pork-barrel spending.

By Sean Worth | 29 November 2016 | 8 comments

Judy Terry: Councils must be included in the industrial strategy

Local Enterprise Partnerships have shown how business can prompt local authorities to speed up decision making.

By Judy Terry | 21 September 2016

Enterprise Zones have proved a quiet success story – let’s have more of them

Brexit will allow us to decide on our own regional policy.

By Harry Phibbs | 29 August 2016 | 5 comments

Simon Parker: Brexit wasn’t just about control. It was about people being left behind by the London elite

The focus on leaving the EU needs to be balanced by a powerful new Department for Growth, with a mandate to devolve power and drive up regional prosperity.

By Simon Parker | 28 June 2016 | 66 comments

How London and Scotland stand out

It’s about what they contribute – and take from – the public finances.

By Peter Hoskin | 21 April 2016 | 12 comments

David Kirkby: The National Living Wage could undermine the Northern Powerhouse – so let’s vary it by region

There are negative possibilities for the supply of jobs, positive ones for productivity – and a lot of variation across sections.

By David Kirkby | 2 April 2016 | 31 comments

Steve Hughes: Osborne’s record. Some progress on the deficit. Slower going on rebalancing. But now he has a chance to deliver.

The second piece in our mini-series on whether the Chancellor is achieving the rebalancing of the economy he wants.

By Steve Hughes | 20 January 2016 | 17 comments

Cllr Robert Pritchard: The West Midlands Powerhouse draws nearer

Tamworth will be there at the table grabbing the opportunity of the new Combined Authority.

By Robert Pritchard | 24 September 2015 | 3 comments

Judy Terry: Regional procurement in the public sector could save millions

Too often, existing suppliers have contracts renewed without proper scrutiny.

By Judy Terry | 9 July 2015 | 12 comments

Lord Hennessy: Never before in recent times have constitutional possibility and peril jostled together quite like this

It’s crucial for the shared future of those who live in these islands that we should not Balkanise ourselves, in either structural terms or in our minds and hearts.

By Lord Hennessey | 25 April 2015 | 12 comments

Five reasons Labour can’t be trusted with the future of England

Having left England out of the devolution deal, they then tried to break up the country. And that was just the start.

By Mark Wallace | 22 April 2015 | 15 comments

How Pickles has transformed local government over the past five years

Bureaucracy and political correctness have been cut back while taxes have been kept down.

By Harry Phibbs | 30 March 2015 | 20 comments

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