Andrew Carter
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Chief Executive @CentreforCities and Deputy Director @WhatWorksGrowth. Views my own.
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Mayoral elections are funny things: Labour seem to be losing in the Tees Valley but (as per this poll by Labour Together) winning in Rishi Sunak's backyard in York and North Yorkshire
Local activists say the race will be 'really tight': my preview here
examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-new…
Our new polling of 4 of next week’s mayoral races is featured in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times by caroline wheeler Starting with the West Midlands where we find incumbent Conservative Andy Street leading Labour’s Richard Parker by 2 points making the race a statistical tie.
This is an important report from Institute for Fiscal Studies There is an urgent need to restore and reinvigorate community policing. Community teams can work out of specialist hubs or co-locate with other public services which are accessible to the public. Above all they should be on the streets.
Astonishing chart from John Burn-Murdoch- on.ft.com/49OMvdz The UK is brilliant at handling immigration, relatively.
Could be a huge strength in the decades ahead
An in-depth attempt to explain nearly five years of levelling up funds: what they are, why they are, and why people have been so unhappy with them
With Amy Borrett and Anna Gross
(The first in a 4-part series about levelling up)
on.ft.com/3Ux0AYE