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These devolution deals are good – but not a silver bullet. Simply putting more money into the hands of combined authorities will not result in power being shared with ordinary people. People won’t really take back control until power is...
English devolution is undeniably back on the political agenda. The government has previously presented its flagship Levelling Up agenda as a blueprint for a ‘devolution revolution’, with ‘metro mayors’ – elected leaders of combined authority areas – at its heart....
As conference season draws to a close and with a new prime minister at the helm, the future of levelling up seems to hang in the balance. Described by Boris Johnson as the ‘defining mission’ of his government, Liz Truss...
A country with high regional inequalities, and an economy dominated by one large metropolitan area – the UK, you might think. But the description could equally apply to Ireland, where Dublin dominates the country’s economy. Given these parallel challenges, it’s...
Drawing on recent research published by Demos, Ben Glover and Andrew Phillips discuss how attitudes to levelling up differ across the country and what this means for the government’s flagship agenda. The morning after the last general election, Boris Johnson...
The Ministry for Local Government is no longer. The recently renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has sent many commentators scrambling, asking: is this a cosmetic change, a nominal change in lieu of real change? Or does this...
One of the many odd features of our post-Brexit political landscape is that amongst all the shouting, rancour, and court cases, there seems to be an almost unBrexit-like consensus on its cause. Social and economic exclusion, or the feeling of...
“The cultural life of the North will get a boost,” George Osborne trumpeted in the Autumn Statement, “including a major new theatre space in Manchester. Manchester City Council propose to call it The Factory Manchester. Anyone who’s a child of...
The Commonwealth Games began in Scotland this week with great fanfare, shortly after the football World Cup came to an end in Brazil. Beyond the opening ceremonies and sporting glamour, the hosting of such events is always subject to economic...
