London’s housing supply is not fit for purpose, and we need a bit of bravery to fix it May 16, 2022 The housing market in London is extremely hard to navigate. Students looking for a flat to rent with two or three friends often have to give up on the idea of a living room for reasons of price. Older couples who might want to relocate after the kids have moved out often don’t, because there’s [...]
Profit and success are not dirty words for the Labour party – and neither is Brexit November 23, 2022 Making Labour a pro-business party was a matter of conviction to me. You can’t be the party of working people without being the party of jobs. And you can’t be the party of jobs without being the party of business. Profit, success, enterprise – those aren’t dirty words in the Labour Party. They’re what drives [...]
Why can’t Britain build any infrastructure? Delays, delays, delays… May 18, 2023 Major UK infrastructure projects are taking far longer than they used to despite changes to planning laws, according to a new report authored by consulting group Ankura. Delays to so-called ‘development consent order’ decisions have increased eight-fold since 2016 – despite those orders being in place to turn Britain into an infrastructure powerhouse. DCOs are [...]
Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak face once in a century living standards crisis September 1, 2022 Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak are set to oversee the steepest fall in living standards in a century after one of them enters Number 10 next Monday, a fresh report published today reveals. Brits are on course to be £3,000 worse off by the end of 2024 as soaring energy bills and inflation eat into [...]
UK borrowing surges to £13.5bn on energy price cap support November 22, 2022 UK borrowing surged over the last year due to the government partially covering the cost of household energy bills, official figures out today reveal. The UK’s debt pile swelled £13.5bn last month, up more than £4bn compared to October 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Although high, the figure was far below [...]
Brexit: Frost to discuss Northern Ireland Protocol proposals on Friday with EU October 14, 2021 Defacto Brexit minister Lord David Frost will meet with his EU counterpart tomorrow in a bid to bridge the “substantial gap” between the UK and EU on the Northern Ireland Protocol, the British government has said tonight. A UK government spokesperson said the EU’s new proposals on how to implement the protocol were proof of [...]
Less than two per cent of eligible parents use Shared Parental Leave November 1, 2021 New research shows that less than 2 per cent of eligible couples use the Shared Parental Leave (SPL) scheme, with its uptake falling 17 per cent in the past year.
DEAL DONE: Transport for London signs funding settlement with government August 30, 2022 Transport for London (TfL) has signed a long-term funding deal with central government to keep London moving until spring 2024. It comes after two years of fraught negotiations between the TfL and the government after passenger revenues fell due to the pandemic’s impact. The deal was signed off by Transport for London at a board [...]
Scale up investor: Hiring trans women like me isn’t just right – it’s good for business July 3, 2023 Reece Tomlinson, founder of investment firm Saône Capital, on how investing in trans and non-binary people is good for business, as people from different backgrounds have different ideas and approaches “When you look at underrepresented founders as a whole, they’re actually the majority of founders,” says Reece Tomlinson, trans CEO and founder of the Saône [...]
Labour and Tory governments shun £500bn of investment for UK economy since 2000 March 30, 2023 Britain has missed out on £500bn of public investment this century as a result of successive Labour and Conservative governments trimming capital spending to balance the books, a new report out today claims. Since the turn of the millennium, the UK has injected around 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) of public investment [...]