Heseltine Institute General Election 2024 Policy Digest
With a General Election now set for 4 July 2024, the policy community is turning its attention to the next Parliament – and how the biggest policy issues of our time could be addressed. In the run up to the election, the Heseltine Institute will be publishing pieces on a range of topics that will undoubtedly be subject to debate over the coming weeks. In the meantime, we’ve trawled our archives to highlight some of our recent policy-focused work.
Posted on: 4 June 2024
Things might actually get better: Trends, discontinuities and the future for ‘Levelling Up’
While the immediate economic outlook is certainly gloomy, the medium-term outlook is better.
Posted on: 15 February 2024
Untangling the effect of insecure work on local economic performance: towards a new research agenda
Insecure work can have a cost for individuals, but how does insecurity affect local economies? This blog proposes a new direction for future research, that quantifies the effect insecurity is having locally in order to inform new approaches to improving the quality – and not just quantity – of work.
Posted on: 6 February 2024
The Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review: can ‘transformational’ growth be delivered?
Heseltine Institute Research Associate Dr Tom Arnold reflects on the new Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review and discusses whether the right policy levers are available to deliver the ‘transformational’ economic growth it proposes.
Posted on: 7 December 2023
The 2023 Party Conferences: long-term decisions for next year’s election
With both the Conservative and Labour party conferences visiting the North West over recent weeks, Heseltine Institute Research Associate Dr James Hickson considers what the key announcements from both parties suggest about the state of play ahead of the next general election.
Posted on: 17 October 2023
The case for social broadband
By providing social broadband through cheaper tariffs, so the argument goes, we can overcome the vagaries of digital exclusion and poverty.
Posted on: 26 September 2023
The Power of Plans - in Shenzhen, Dublin and New York
In three unmissable podcasts with international guests, Profs. Lucy Natarajan at UCL and Ian Wray at the Heseltine Institute explore what makes for a powerful plan.
Posted on: 15 August 2023
Do We Need a Plan for England?
Back in the 2000s an enthusiastic Regional Development Agency chair went to visit his responsible Minister and asked if we could have a national spatial plan. The response was telling: ‘Oh, we don’t want one of those. Everybody would be able to see what we were doing’. Recently an eminent transport planner made a similarly downbeat point: ‘We are so far adrift on coherent strategic thinking (our strategy is to make it up as you go along) that a spatial plan looks like a fantasy. Maybe it’s something we could get to, after development of a set of coordinated measures’.
Posted on: 21 June 2023
Revealing the political foundations of the UK’s COVID-19 crisis
To celebrate the launch of COVID-19 and the Case Against Neoliberalism: The United Kingdom’s Political Pandemic, co-author James Hickson provides an overview of the book’s central arguments and its implications for post-pandemic policymaking.
Posted on: 4 May 2023
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Heseltine Institute General Election 2024 Policy Digest
With a General Election now set for 4 July 2024, the policy community is turning its attention to the next Parliament – and how the biggest policy issues of our time could be addressed. In the run up to the election, the Heseltine Institute will be publishing pieces on a range of topics that will undoubtedly be subject to debate over the coming weeks. In the meantime, we’ve trawled our archives to highlight some of our recent policy-focused work.
Posted on: 4 June 2024