This year’s State of the North report highlights the gap between promises and reality on levelling up.
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Devolution & local leadership
Metro mayors
IPPR North
The UK is one of the most regionally divided countries in the developed world . Over-centralisation, ingrained in a culture that assumes that ‘Whitehall knows best’, is the root cause of this ....
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Devolution & local leadership
IPPR North
Three in every five people in the north of England, that’s 9.7 million people, are now covered by a mayoral combined authority. In the North, six powerful metro mayors now govern areas with a...
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Devolution & local leadership
Power & politics
Metro mayors
IPPR North
My last face-to-face work meeting before Covid-19 was back in February 2020, a few weeks before the pandemic hit Scotland. Looking back now, the idea of getting the train, going to Glasgow, meeting a...
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Devolution & local leadership
Power & politics
Scotland
IPPR Scotland
A milestone for devolution
This week, voters across the UK will participate in devolved and local elections. The political and policy landscapes are very different from 2017 when the first of...
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Devolution & local leadership
Power & politics
IPPR North
Cornwall was one of the first areas to secure a devolution deal in 2015 and it remains the only non-metropolitan area with devolved powers in England. But six years on, with significant progress...
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Briefing
Devolution & local leadership
IPPR North
This report considers the think tank sector in Scotland, its history and potential ways to strengthen the sector in the future.
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Devolution & local leadership
Scotland
Third Sector
IPPR Scotland
In this year's State of the North report, we set out some of the ways in which the North’s economy does not, currently, create the conditions for a good life for everyone in the region – and how a truly ‘levelled up’ North might look.
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The events of the last 24 hours have stripped away the veneer of our political establishment and revealed the fractious relationship between central and local government.
What has happened...
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Devolution & local leadership
Coronavirus response
IPPR North
In this report, we consider how English regions, such as the North East, can use devolution to address child poverty and improve the lives and life chances of children.
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Devolution & local leadership
Young people
Equality
Metro mayors
IPPR North