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By counting visits to Expedia, Booking.com, and Airbnb rentals between July and September 2023, the ONS have recently released data on the UK’s short-term lets market. This novel dataset reveals...
On 2 May, 10 metro mayors and over two thousand local councillors will be elected across England. As in any election, the outcome most people will look at will be the winning candidates. But...
The English local elections on 2 May will mark a key moment in 2024’s busy political calendar. Polling day will see voters in 107 councils go to the polls to elect 2,660 councillors, with Labour...
Basing policy on evidence should be the norm. You’d be hard pressed to find a person at any level of government who wouldn’t agree that policy should, whenever possible, be enacted on clear...
Ahead of the 2024 Mayoral Elections on 2 May, Centre for Cities polled people in nine of the mayoralties going to the ballot box to understand public awareness of the mayoral institution and...
The 2021 Census was conducted in the height of Covid-19. We need another Census to provide local-level data we can trust.
We’ve all heard the cliché that ‘all politics is local’. But in England, it might be more accurate to say that ‘most politics is national’. In recent years, local elections for councils...
Last week, the Centre published a briefing on our mayoral polling. Most of the focus has been on areas with established mayors. However, three new Combined Authorities (CAs) are voting on mayors...
After the 2010 election the Coalition Government, and in particular the Conservative Prime Minister and Chancellor, quickly realised that as part of their plan for repairing the damage done by the...
Labour look set to stick with the term levelling up. Here’s why that’s a good thing.