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Devo Question Time: Connecting the North – HS3 and Beyond
Neil McInroy will be speaking at this DevoConnect event including GM mayoral candidates Andy Burnham MP and Cllr. Sean Anstee, Leader of Trafford MBC.
Reception Room, Manchester Town Hall
5.30pm, 2nd February 2017
We are now well on the road to the Metro Mayoral elections on 4th May but what’s on offer and what will devolution really mean? Politics is changing and devolution represents a prime opportunity for Metro Mayors to lead the way, deliver big ideas and ambitions and ultimately drive inward investment and rebalance the economy outside London.
We need a real deal on devolution- new joint SPERI and CLES report
Devolution is not without significant risks and challenges. A new joint paper ‘The Real Deal: Pushing the parameters of devolution deals’ from the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) explores the restrictions in the current devolution agenda, and presents ideas for a new settlement to make devolution a force for progressive change.
CLES Manifesto for Local Economies charts a more socially just future
The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) is today launching a manifesto setting out how to create local economies that serve all sections of society. Britain is in a significant moment of constitutional, social, economic, environmental and cultural change. As such we need policy responses which are equal to it.
