Can Whitehall’s Gramscian Leninist deliver on levelling up?
Michael Gove has earned a reputation for ruthless efficiency and intellectual curiosity. But those attributes won’t be enough to solve…
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Why we need a better employment service for jobseekers
Jobcentre Plus does not help the vast majority find work, says the director of the Institute for Employment Studies.
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Is Westminster best placed to make detailed funding decisions on devolution?
The Prime Minister seems determined to compete with politicians across the Union yet does not fully understand the devolved nations’…
The number of unemployed young people on benefits has trebled over the pandemic
The Kickstart scheme has helped get nearly 100,000 young adults into employment but jobseekers are still struggling to land roles.
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Community Wealth Building should be at the heart of levelling up
The chief executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies on what a real levelling up strategy should look like
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Tracy Brabin: How West Yorkshire’s mayor came home
The region's first-ever metro mayor on cultural capital, transport and rebuilding Labour’s image in the north.
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The “Houchenist” manifesto
The Mayor of Tees Valley is implementing a new kind of Tory agenda that mirrors global economic shifts.
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The return of pork barrel politics
The government has been accused of undermining levelling up by using its spending power to steer votes – but what…
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