We said Labour would consolidate rather than make dramatic gains. That proved broadly accurate.
Levelling-up education must ensure that moving on up does not have to mean moving out
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.
Some of the arguments for a directly elected or mayoral model seem to be set up against a straw man.
Neil O’Brien, Rachael Robathan and Chris Hogwood give their thoughts on what the future holds for urban centres.
We know how difficult it was to lose millions of manufacturing jobs – let us beware of inadvertently accelerating the same process for services jobs.
The fourth part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
The more radical his plans are, the more resistance there will be. But one can’t serve up a municipal omelette without breaking eggs.
It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
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.
They have existing infrastructure in place. But improved intercity transport is needed as well as building new homes.
The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
I will be returning regularly to this theme: the need to create a mainstream English and Welsh majority from shore to shore.
The second part of a ConHome series this week on housing and planning in the wake of the Queen’s Speech.