A timely report – from Ed Balls, no less – suggests that a lack of graduates is not the reason for our productivity deficit. Rather, our productivity deficit explains the lack of graduate-level jobs.
Truss and Clarke will inherit a good plan, and a strong agenda for delivering for the Red Wall – all they need to do now is deliver.
Her u-turn on regional pay for the public sector shows how difficult it will be to take on the ‘Blob’ holding Britain back.
The second part of a ConHome series this week on housing and planning in the wake of the Queen’s Speech.
A better funding balance between the Premier League and the rest would throw a lifeline to dozens of cherished local clubs.
Government requires a new spatial strategy for deciding where and how investment should be made.
It is only by embracing freedom and economic liberalism that we will make a real difference to those left behind.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
I would like to reply, again, to Henry Hill – as part of our debate on the best way to build in Britain.
I take issue with Henry Hill’s recent article for ConservativeHome on the matter. Here’s why.
Voters across the political spectrum are united in their wish to see more done here.
The crisis has tended to hit communities which were already struggling the hardest.
Spending amounts to an extra £24 billion over four years from today’s levels, helping to equip our Armed Forces.
In many places that need levelling up, the real unemployment rate exceeds the number of job vacancies; labour supply is a greater problem in the South.