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Local Elections 2021: What the early results mean

Katherine Morgan

7 May 2021 - 11:11

Keir Starmer and the Labour Party woke up this morning with news from Hartlepool that another red wall seat has fallen to the Conservatives in dramatic fashion. The next general election is three years away but 10 Downing Street will be celebrating if this stark trend continues throughout the weekend. Election results are expected across […]

The English local elections: whose wall is it anyway?

Francis Mallinson

5 May 2021 - 15:24

Tomorrow’s local elections are a welcome return to some sort of normality after they were put on pause by the pandemic. According to the polls this isn’t the only familiar theme. In London, the numbers suggest Sadiq Khan will win the mayoralty by a healthy margin. But with so much attention on former Labour heartlands […]

Forced Fashion or Fashion Forward?

Victoria McNish

31 Mar 2021 - 13:52

Last week I interviewed Nus Ghani MP in an event for NextGen Public Affairs to hear more about her lobbying efforts to end trade with states complicit in genocide and ensure no UK business profits from slave-labour. International organisations have been campaigning for years against the Chinese Government’s internment of Uyghur people in so-called ‘re-education’ […]

Balancing up: Analysing Rishi Sunak’s Budget

Katherine Morgan

3 Mar 2021 - 14:53

Some previous Chancellors have struggled to have their place in the sun. Gordon Brown famously developed the pre-budget report to stamp his authority in the House of Commons and help broaden the Treasury’s reach right across Whitehall. Of the many problems faced by Rishi Sunak over the past year, this has not been one. Today’s […]

Follow the green brick road…

Victoria McNish

17 Feb 2021 - 09:24

Jaguar Land Rover, Scottish Widows, Shell, Coca-Cola – what do they all have in common you may ask? These are just some of the companies that have announced new net zero or decarbonisation targets in the past month alone. Rarely a week goes by without one corporate pledge or another in the headlines, which […]

Has the pandemic changed the debate for Scottish independence?

Eilidh Wilson

13 Jan 2021 - 17:58

According to the latest YouGov poll, the Yes vote leads by 51% to 49% and over two thirds of Scots think Nicola Sturgeon is doing well as First Minister. The SNP are in a stronger position than ever before and hence it was no surprise that in September, Sturgeon announced that her Government will set […]

2021 – Is a BoJo – MoJo recovery in sight?

Stephen Bramall

7 Jan 2021 - 18:16

It’s a reasonable assumption, if not a certainty, that Boris Johnson will not look back on 2020 with much fondness. And 2021 hasn’t got off to a great start for him, with the new virus strain ripping through the population and a national lockdown likely to be in place until Easter. Who would have believed […]

Online Harms Bill – A new era for tech regulation

Francis Mallinson

16 Dec 2020 - 13:47

WHAT HAS HAPPENED? After several years of delay, the Government published its long-awaited online harms regulatory regime proposals on Tuesday 15th December. The result of those delays is a system which does not quite ‘lead the world’, as was the original intention (the EU published its Digital Services Act on the same day, for […]

Friday 13th: Could this be the day that Boris Johnson saved his premiership?

Stephen Bramall

14 Nov 2020 - 11:18

In western culture Friday the 13th is seen by many as a deeply unlucky day. But for Boris Johnson Friday 13th November 2020 may turn out to be a very lucky day indeed. It might even be the day that he saved his premiership. The sudden dramatic, and very public, departure of Lee Cain, his […]

CSR postponement fallout: Competition. Security. Reform.

Will Wallace

22 Oct 2020 - 14:22

Three things that the CSR postponement leaves unanswered Today’s announcement from the Chancellor that the multi-year spending settlement is being pushed back to next year with an interim one year 2021/22 carry over budget for departments leaves a number of questions unanswered beyond the pure government finance allocations. I explore three areas here around […]

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