State of the North 2021/22: Powering northern excellence
This year’s State of the North report highlights the gap between promises and reality on levelling up.
This year’s State of the North report highlights the gap between promises and reality on levelling up.
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 ....
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...
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...
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...
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...
This report considers the think tank sector in Scotland, its history and potential ways to strengthen the sector in the future.
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.
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...
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.