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Valentine Quinio

Analyst Valentine Quinio explores the latest high street spend and footfall data to establish what impact England’s ‘Freedom Day’ had on consumer behaviour, and what this means for high street recovery.

Valentine Quinio

Drawing on lessons from the first lockdown, there will likely be large differences between how the high streets of cities across the UK recover as restrictions begin to lift.

Elena Magrini

While the take-up of the Job Retention Scheme has increased everywhere in January to reflect the third lockdown, there are signs that things are less bad than during the first one.

Elena Magrini

The pandemic has made levelling up four times harder and it risks levelling down otherwise economically successful parts of the country as well.

Elena Magrini

Despite claimant count remaining unchanged or declining in almost every city and large town over the past month, places are entering this second lockdown in a much weaker position than in March.

Simon Jeffrey and Paul Swinney

Our recent paper 'Levelling up Local Government in England' sparked much debate. Here’s a round-up and response to the main themes.

Simon Jeffrey

While the Chancellor made a series of national announcements in the Summer Statement, they will play out differently across the country.

Valentine Quinio and Jamie Harper

As lockdown begins to ease and domestic tourism looks set to return, we examined how tourism affects local economies up and down the country.