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The Government’s growth-oriented policies are increasingly focused on big cities, while levelling up worries about redistribution. This is a helpful distinction.
Three years since the Covid pandemic started, the labour market has stabilised, with employment above pre-pandemic levels for most places.
A comparison with Paris highlights the weaknesses that emerged in London since the financial crisis
While London’s stuttering presents an additional productivity challenge, it should be possible for policy makers to deal with two separate productivity problems simultaneously.
Weak investment in intangibles may be one of the explanations behind London’s weak productivity growth.
The first blog of this series shows that London’s moved from leader to laggard in terms of the UK’s productivity growth, costing billions to the national economy.
Writing for Left Foot Forward, Anthony Breach says that delivering growth will require Labour to deliver planning reform and a housebuilding boom to finally solve the housing crisis.
Writing for Conservative Home, Anthony Breach notes two key changes the new housing minister can make immediately to leave a positive legacy in planning and housing.
The national story of rising inactivity and labour shortages only plays out in a handful of cities and this has important implications for how policy goes about addressing the issue.
It may have many admirers, but Poundbury’s location means that it was always going to struggle to achieve its central aims.