North West in the UK’s top three regions for foreign direct investment

07.06.21 The North West’s attractiveness as an investment destination has grown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is now...

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Mayoral Elections 2021: Why they matter

On Thursday 6th May 2021, voters in seven city regions – West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, the Tees Valley, the...

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Whitehall must give power to regions or admit levelling up means nothing

04.05.21 By Lord Jim O’Neill, vice-chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership In March, Greater Manchester (where I grew up),...

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Government’s ‘tunnel vision’ in education is failing to help children in deprived areas, shadow schools minister warns

11.03.21 The shadow minister for schools has warned that the government’s “tunnel vision” in education is failing to help...

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Yorkshire to see slower post-Covid recovery than rest of the country

15.12.20 EY’s latest Regional Economic Forecast says that the region’s economy will be one of four not expected return...

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