In my column for The QT last week I explored where the North East’s tech sector fits into the wider narrative of a region set to embrace deeper devolution. In the piece I talked about how we must assess the size of the sector and understand the strength of its constituent parts if we are …
Having observed the rise and fall of several governments over the course of my career, it seems to me that there always comes a point in the lifetime of an administration where all events conspire to the one end of inevitable electoral defeat. I witnessed it with the long, slow demise of John Major’s Government …
HISTORIC MOMENT: St Chad’s College in Durham was the historic setting for a historic moment as seven leaders from across the North East came together to sign the region’s devolution deal with Levelling Up Minister Jacob Young. With the deal signed, it ensures the area can hit the ground running when a new Mayor for …
Council tax bills are arriving through letterboxes across the region while services that we used to take for granted are under growing threat. Most of us are being asked to pay an extra 5% to our local authority, the maximum permitted by central government, but there is less money to spend on libraries, road repairs, …
Devolution has proved a revolutionary, if controversial, development that has defined the current period of Conservative Party rule in the North. Under the steam of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the Tories have lent into devolution, both as a lever to ‘levelling up’ and as a potential solution to the ‘problem’ of the North and …
The date of the next General Election might still be uncertain, but one thing we can be sure of is that this year will witness several significant mayoral elections across England. Once the preserve of constitutional scholars, English devolution is now political centrestage, and nowhere more so than here in the north east where two …
If you’re reading this, then chances are you are more curious and more engaged than most. You’ll have some sense of this being a significant year for the North East. Let’s lay out exactly how it’s significant, and what role there is for all of us as part of it. There’s the expected General Election, …
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