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City Talks: Tony Travers on the Mayor of LondonLSE's Professor Tony Travers discussing two decades of the London mayoralty.
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LSE's Professor Tony Travers discussing two decades of the London mayoralty.
Six areas to watch in infrastructure policy this year.
Can the de-centralization of political powers help the country to recover from the second lockdown?
The recent stand off between Andy Burnham and the Government shouldn't be seen as a failure of devolution, it shows that it's working. But there's still more to be done.
If metro mayors are defunded, sidelined or even scrapped then the Prime Minister’s levelling-up agenda will fail, and ultimately so, too, will his government argues Andrew Carter.
In May 2021, nearly 20 million people in England will be choosing city-region mayors. What are metro mayors and what do they do?
Four senior politicians on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the levelling up agenda - and why it's more important than ever.
While Central Government is having to deal with the effects of the pandemic, now is exactly the right time to be devolving responsibility and resources to cities and towns across the country, argues Andrew Carter.
Arguing for more balance in how money is allocated across the country does nothing to tackle the varied challenges different places face in improving their economies.
While the Treasury’s method of appraisal has been the focus of much recent ire, it is the lack of clear strategy from successive governments that should be the focus of the North’s frustrations.