
Paul Howell and Heather Wheeler: Full HS2 is critical to our election commitment to rebalance the economy
We cannot waste the opportunity that our Government’s high-speed rail investment plans presents.
We cannot waste the opportunity that our Government’s high-speed rail investment plans presents.
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.
The pandemic offers the Government an inadvertent opportunity to “level up” Britain through the working from home revolution.
WPI Economics, which has been crunching numbers for the first, has also taken an interest in the second.
Government sometimes treats the constraints fatalistically, rather than seeing them as a problem that prices, incentives, and regulations could affect.
If politicians are going to take voters with them, we need to be honest about the trade offs and develop policies to help those who stand to lose out.
Five reasons why Hancock’s announcement of tougher restrictions yesterday met less resistance than might have been expected.
The manifesto path means doing things now. The Cameroon path relies on a public rejection of much said before. A vague agenda in the middle won’t cut it.
It is a bad sign both for the Government and devolution that the Greater Manchester Mayor has been able to run rings round Ministers.
The UK can and should achieve its ambitious emissions reductions targets. But it will only get there by making the most of all energy sources and technologies.
The UK has never had such an independent institution despite the model being a tremendous success in other countries around the world.
Most Tory MPs will be seeing large increases in the housing targets for their seats, while many Labour MPs see their local targets reduced.
The Prime Minister will be rejected by the aspirational working class that voted for him in large numbers if he cannot win this battle.
This decision reiterates the political importance of the UK’s cities to our party – and we must aim for a blue-led council in 2022.
We must adapt or risk a lasting hit to one of the world’s economic command centres. A booster shot is needed to avert a smaller economy.