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Someone is always planning the economy, it is just a question of who…

Does Labour’s spending review signal a return to austerity? Analysis by Kiran Stacey & Richard Partington 👇🏼 theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Not too late to sign up for our event next week but tickets are flying out - get em now! We'll reflect on some of our early findings looking through 20 years of data on the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, reflecting on the Spending Review, and more. x.com/iconeighbours/…

Glad to see that the Independent Water Commission is going to suggest looking at social enterprise, cooperative and other models of delivery. thetimes.com/article/b0755f…

Today we launch a new research working paper by Ross Mudie, Ellis Farrar and Carola Signori, featuring a new study of social and economic change in England's neigbourhoods since 2001. We find that mission critical neighbourhoods have been overwhelmingly trapped at the bottom –

This should be the cornerstone of Conservative economic policy.

Last week we launched our latest research with a brilliant panel of speakers in Westminster. Thanks to everyone that joined that discussion. The research explores how some neighbourhoods have improved over recent years while others have stagnated or declined. Read the report

Our chair Baroness Hilary Armstrong responds to the Health Secretary's announcement today on NHS funding.

Sad, but sadly nothing about the corporate raiders sniffing around ICI in the 1980s and that pressure leading to the fracturing of the business...maybe if the UK Government had taken a more strategic view...

🌹""For too long, the NHS has failed to target investment at those places that need it. This can be hard for the left to hear, for whom public services are always a positive force." Read Ben Glover here: labourlist.org/2025/06/workin…

I've written for LabourList, on a progressive, pro-working class announcement from Wes Streeting yesterday. Should be seen as part of a new focus from the goverment on places like Blackpool. 1/

Latest FDI data - overall investment down 12%...but.... Investors are flooding into UK utilities, real estate and infrastructure. Why? Because risk is low (we are going to need homes, energy and infrastructure)...the UK wealth extraction continues.

theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

The Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods team visited Lawrence Weston in Bristol this month to see firsthand how the installation of England’s tallest onshore wind turbine has changed the lives of local residents. neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/news/independe…

My thoughts on why Starmer's government is best thought of not as a Labour government, but something else ... newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

Bringing back Sure Start, focussed on the most disadvantaged areas, is a very very good move from government. Something we know works - and works incredibly well. Look forward to seeing more of the detail tomorrow. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

What exactly have Conservatives apologised for? What have we confronted that went wrong?

There have been many achievements, but the lesson from the first year of government is that only radical, bold and fundamental reform of the state will do. Or we face political disaster. My piece for The New Statesman 👇 newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…