In Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first speech after the General Election, she confirmed that the Government’s number one mission will be economic growth, measured as changes in GDP per capita. Whether its addressing the productivity gap between the UK and its G7 peers, nurturing the green shoots of growth in cutting-edge industries or tackling the housebuilding backlog, any plan for economic growth relies on improving the economic performance of the UK’s BIG cities.
Centre for Cities’ General Election section shows how looking at geography changes and deepens our understanding of this growth mission and the new Government’s other policy priorities.
Seven suggestions from Centre for Cities for what the new government should do to make an immediate difference and put policies in place to try and kick-start the UK’s flatlining economy
In its manifesto Labour said it will ask places across the country to come up with Local Growth Plans. The intention is that politicians will work with the private sector, education providers and...
The English devolution Bill should be seen as a prelude to bigger reforms that come later and make a big difference to economic growth.
If it is to be any different than the other growth strategies, then the Labour industrial strategy needs a clear target and make choices.
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Join Centre for Cities to explore what manifestos have said on the key issues for urban Britain and what these promises could mean in practice.
These 12 charts demonstrate how the geography of the UK economy shapes the UK’s main economic policy challenges.
This data tool breaks down local economic data across the 575 parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales, showing each constituency’s average performance on a range of economic indicators.
Five weeks to go until the general election, Centre for Cities launches a data tool that puts constituencies in context to better understand their economic performance.
While parliamentary constituencies are frequently contrasted to either one another or the national average, this comparison tells us less in reality than the figures suggest. We shouldn’t expect...
Join Centre for Cities to explore what manifestos have said on the key issues for urban Britain and what these promises could mean in practice.
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We have selected four places in England where we think urban issues are going to be decisive in the contest to gain local parliamentary constituencies: Stoke, York, Bristol and Milton Keynes. ...
With 2024 a likely election year, this year's Cities Outlook looks back at how cities have fared since 2010 and where the economy would be today had pre-2010 trends continued.
In anticipation of the mayoral elections, Centre for Cities has polled people across the largest mayoral areas. Explore our findings in this briefing.
This Sunday marks 10 years since George Osborne made his first speech on the Northern Powerhouse, a plan to get northern cities firing again. This issue (rebadged as levelling up by Boris Johnson)...
Politicians have always promised greater homeownership. Ahead of the 2024 general election, the manifestoes of all the main parties are promising to make homeownership easier and more affordable,...
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What are the trade-offs and challenges as the Government seeks to secure public benefits and avoid unearned windfalls to landowners on green belt land?
Peter Mandelson had a crack at one in 2009. Theresa May had another go in 2017. And there have been a raft of other economic strategies too. Yet despite this we’re going to go round the block again – the new Government is going to write another industrial strategy. If this one isn’t to join the others in the now-overflowing policy recycle bin, what needs to be different?
In its manifesto Labour said it will ask places across the country to come up with Local Growth Plans. The intention is that politicians will work with the private sector, education providers and...
Seven suggestions from Centre for Cities for what the new government should do to make an immediate difference and put policies in place to try and kick-start the UK’s flatlining economy
After the general election results how many urban MPs now sit on the Government benches, does this change the makeup they had prior?
Join Centre for Cities to discuss what the election result means for UK cities.
Despite being absent from the campaign, now that they have a ‘super-majority’, Labour will need its own version of levelling-up.
Politicians have always promised greater homeownership. Ahead of the 2024 general election, the manifestoes of all the main parties are promising to make homeownership easier and more affordable,...
This Sunday marks 10 years since George Osborne made his first speech on the Northern Powerhouse, a plan to get northern cities firing again. This issue (rebadged as levelling up by Boris Johnson)...
Join Centre for Cities to explore what manifestos have said on the key issues for urban Britain and what these promises could mean in practice.
