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Regional Growth Fund is no more effective than the scheme it replaced
Article
Replacing Regional Development Agencies with a more-aspirational Regional Growth Fund has not produced any evidential improvements for communities, a National Audit Office report has shown. Yet...
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18 May 2012
How the Tories became an endangered species in the North of England
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Councillor Ron Round may well have earned the title of Generalissimo of English local government: he has the distinction of leading England’s sole one party state....
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10 May 2012
Business accuses Coalition of ditching growth
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10 May 2012
What future for local democracy?
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Disastrously low turnouts in last week’s local elections reinforce the sense of local democracy being in a dire state. Dissatisfaction with national politics is on the rise and calls for stronger...
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10 May 2012
Back to the drawing board: a unionist answer to the West Lothian Question
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The Government’s Commission on the West Lothian Question has at last got to work. But how can they answer a puzzle Gladstone thought beyond the wit of man, and why should they bother?...
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08 May 2012
Localism without elected mayors
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As the dust settles on the local elections, and the news sinks in that nearly all of England’s major cities rejected the offer of an elected mayor, the question has to be asked: what happens now to...
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08 May 2012
Two households, both alike in dignity?
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Bradford, where we lay our scene, has a new MP and will soon have a new council leader. IPPR’s report, Alike in dignity? Housing in Bradford, assesses the serious housing problems they must now...
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08 May 2012
Northern eyes are on you now, Liverpool
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Liverpool is the most important northern city to have a directly elected mayor. Jokes aside about how cosy the cabinet of mayors meetings will be, if the government is true to its word, Merseyside...
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08 May 2012
Southern cities seek powers to boost growth
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08 May 2012
Alike in dignity? Housing in Bradford
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Bradford's housing landscape is a legacy of its industrial past. This report focuses on the effects of changes in tenure patterns – especially the trend towards housing benefit tenants residing in...
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07 May 2012
The challenges of modern motherhood
Project update
We live in a time of equality, and yet when women have children they often find that these illusions of equality are shattered. Speaking at an IPPR North 'Ideas on the 3rd floor' event, Rebecca Asher...
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04 May 2012
Where next for the North?
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Labour have taken seats in local elections across the country, not just in Northern towns and cities and in Wales, where the Liberal Democrat vote has collapsed, but in places such in Birmingham and...
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04 May 2012
Going metro
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Ed Cox argues that city mayors should just be the start, and that mayors for metropolitan regions with a wider range of powers would be a greater step towards real devolution of power....
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24 Apr 2012
Northern prosperity will increase national prosperity but a comprehensive economic strategy is needed to address structural constraints
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On 3 May, Liverpool and Salford will get their first directly elected mayors and many other English cities decide on the same date whether to follow suit. While it is a welcome development to have a...
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23 Apr 2012
Should Newcastle have an elected mayor?
Project update
Speaking at a mayoral referendum debate in Newcastle organised by IPPR North, Lord John Shipley and Lord Jeremy Beecham went head to head and laid out the opposing sides of debate. Lord Shipley...
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20 Apr 2012
NEFC interim report published
Project update
The Commission is now at its mid-way point and has published its interim report - Northern prosperity is national prosperity - which outlines five key propositions about northern economic futures....
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20 Apr 2012
Northern prosperity is national prosperity
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Rebalancing has become one of the weasel words of British political life. It has joined ‘green’, ‘localism’ and a host of friends as one of those political words everyone supports but no-one...
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16 Apr 2012
HMT wasting £40bn Northern economic potential
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The UK economy would be £40billion better off if Northern economic potential was properly utilised and brought closer in line with other English regions. Narrowing the difference in output by only...
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16 Apr 2012
Coalition urged to cut north-south gap
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16 Apr 2012
Northern prosperity is national prosperity: NEFC interim report
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In this interim report, the Northern Economic Futures Commission (NEFC) makes the case for a much clearer focus on the North in economic policymaking. It argues that the longstanding structural...
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16 Apr 2012