Centre for Cities research reveals almost ten million new private sector jobs will need to be created to reverse the damage done by the pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic makes levelling up the North and Midlands four times harder and risks ‘levelling down’ the South.

Air pollution fell in the Spring but now exceeds pre-pandemic levels in 80% of places despite continued lockdown restrictions.

Official public spending rules are not a barrier to levelling up the country, but a lack of direction from Government is.

New data shows that Eat Out To Help Out is helping the high street, but workers are resisting the Government’s calls to get back to the office – with average weekday city centre footfall showing no change at all since early July. 

People in large cities and towns in Wales and Northern England have the most household debt and could be worst hit in the post-Covid economic downturn.

Congestion is holding back major cities, such as Manchester and Birmingham, where new transport infrastructure could help them add billions to the UK economy each year

South/North divide, with people living in southern cities more likely to die from toxic air Air pollution deaths are 25 times higher than the national rate of deaths from traffic...

Urban council leaders and elected mayors now rank the climate emergency among the most important issues British cities face – but they say they need more support from Government to help them...

Urges all metro mayors to step up and use their powers to franchise bus services in order to improve passenger uptake and access to buses The next Government should simplify the franchising...