Centre for Progressive Policy

📢 New CPP blog: Economic growth is essential, but resilience is key to navigating a decade of national renewal. Tanya Singh outlines 3 principles for building a stronger, more adaptable economy: 1️⃣ Strategy counts: intelligent industrial policy can be the backbone of resilience. 2️⃣ We need governance that bends, not breaks. 3️⃣ Place matters: plans to build resilience should start locally. 🔗 Read more at: https://lnkd.in/ePbkt__A

Seen for what it is - an important first step in putting some structure and cohesion behind a previously opaque devolution system - the English Devolution White Paper marks an important moment in rebalancing power towards our places. Building on the foundations of our Inclusive Growth Network, we'll be working with Metro Dynamics and The Future Governance Forum (FGF) over the coming months to develop the network as a vehicle to test and prototype inclusive growth and public service reform innovations at the place level, and to boost the capacity of local and strategic authorities, not least through helping them to learn from each other on what works and why. An exciting moment for all of us committed to tackling regional inequalities.

📢 NEW CPP blog: Director of Place and Practice Annabel Smith sets out CPP's response to the Devolution White Paper as a pragmatic first step in ending centralisation by default. 🔗 Read it at: https://lnkd.in/ew4W6zhD

Did you catch last week's episode of The Power Test podcast? Live at #IGConf24 Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika led an insightful discussion with our panel of experts, including Annabel Smith, Centre for Progressive Policy, Danny Sriskandarajah, New Economics Foundation, and Claire Ainsley from the Progressive Policy Institute. The topic? National renewal for political survival: How can Labour win again? ⏰ In this 2-minute clip, Sam sets out the political context and Annabel shares a compelling argument on how 'default devolution' could be the key to success 👇 🔗Listen to the full podcast at: https://lnkd.in/eduuPTk9 🔗Stream the conference at: https://lnkd.in/eVFJaMSM

Did you catch last week's episode of The Power Test podcast? Live at #IGConf24 Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika led an insightful discussion with our panel of experts, including Annabel Smith, Centre for Progressive Policy, Danny Sriskandarajah, New Economics Foundation, and Claire Ainsley from the Progressive Policy Institute. The topic? National renewal for political survival: How can Labour win again? ⏰ In this 2-minute clip, Sam sets out the political context and Annabel shares a compelling argument on how 'default devolution' could be the key to success 👇 🔗Listen to the full podcast at: https://lnkd.in/eduuPTk9 🔗Stream the conference at: https://lnkd.in/eVFJaMSM

As the government sets out its plan for change tomorrow, it was great to record an episode of The Power Test live at our Centre for Progressive Policy Inclusive Growth Conference, on how Labour can bring about the tangible improvements in living standards people are crying out for. With Claire Ainsley, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika. I spoke to the potential of working in genuine partnership with mayors and local leaders, and creating policy closer to communities. Listen below.

Recorded live at the Centre for Progressive Policy's Inclusive Growth Conference, our latest special episode sees Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika joined by Annabel Smith, the Progressive Policy Institute's Claire Ainsley, and New Economics Foundation's Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah looking at where we are six months into the new Labour government and what it needs to do to deliver its promise of a decade of national renewal. https://lnkd.in/eduuPTk9

LGG’s Dan Tomlinson MP spoke to Centre for Progressive Policy’s Inclusive Growth conference this morning. Putting the case for how our Labour Government is delivering the foundations for growth While David Pinto-Duschinsky and Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP have been speaking to POLITICO Europe’s Financial Services Summit about banking regulation and delivering growth in a challenging global environment

Did you attend this year's annual Inclusive Growth Conference? Hosted by Ayesha Hazarika, with a fantastic lineup of panel guests, exploring critical issues, this event was not to be missed. For those of you who could not make it, the full recording is available below. Here is a summary of the key takeaways from each panel: 🏘️ Whose growth is it anyway? After what Dan Tomlinson MP described as '10 years of degrowth,' conversation spanned from childcare and housing to intergenerational inequality. 🤝Handing away power to deliver prosperity in every community. The discussion looked ahead to the Devolution White Paper, stressing the need for public service reform, local growth plans, leadership, and the centrality of place to success. 📈 Raising public and private investment everywhere The panel was in broad agreement that the UK has the fundamentals needed to increase investment. What do we need? Clarity, stability, and conditions that allow entrepreneurs to succeed. ⏰ National renewal for political survival - with The Power Test podcast Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika set out the political context, with the following discussion looking to the US, farmer protests, and the need for a restoration of trust in politics. It was an inspiring day of critical discussion, that finished with a keynote speech from Devolution Minister Jim McMahon OBE MP. Stay up to date with CPP and our Inclusive Growth Network, to find out more about how we plan to transform discussion into impact.   🔗 If you missed it, you can watch the full recording here: https://lnkd.in/eR-ftnV5

Leeds City Council is one of the founder members of the Inclusive Growth Network. The last four years have enabled us to share and develop ideas. ! Looking forward to the next four years and ramping up focus on delivery.