Good to read reflections on #Darlo from @path-dependent.bsky.social in @telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Thanks to Helen Fielding in @theguardian.com of making the case for her home town of #Leeds & wider #North. “The north-south divide in Britain is much bigger than in most westernised countries.” Clearly @joshhalliday.bsky.social & colleagues influence on wider paper knows no bounds

Read the @the-independent.com @caitlindoherty.bsky.social for exclusive on letter from business groups on international students levy including @businessldn.bsky.social @np-partnership.bsky.social @ukmusic.bsky.social @techuk.bsky.social to Chancellor www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Live weather report #StormClaudia in the #Pennines is very rainy Thanks to @northernrail.bsky.social keeping the #North moving even with the disruption

About to leave #Brisbane to return home via #Sydney They are seven years away from hosting @brisbane2032.bsky.social & I wish the organisers all the very best

So am in #Queensland following Australia British Infrastructure catalyst before returning to #Sydney & trying some of public transport in advance of huge improvements planned before @brisbane2032.bsky.social Just arrived #SunshineCoast via very scenic @queenslandrail.bsky.social #translink

The Government will not announce the investment in rail infrastructure Burnham has been calling for at Labour's party conference ➡# Read more: trib.al/bJ9bZxB

Very grateful to @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social for fab newsletter today: www.ft.com/content/ad1c...

Money alone is not the solution to all our ills. But without clear change, those ills will get much worse. A funding settlement that strengthens local government in poorer northern communities - as we have been promised - is essential to that change. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Unfortunately for Richard Tice he is talking out of his hat as trams for #ManchesterAirport at #NPR station designed by last govt @np-partnership.bsky.social support @bevcraig.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social speaking up for #North Reform would cut investment here in #North

Off to the AMP this morning to see @henrimurison.bsky.social and Northern Powerhouse Partnership colleagues to talk about how far the Rotherham economy has come - and what’s next. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

A huge majority of people think we need to invest in the Northern rail schemes that have been in development for years. This includes 55% of Reform voters who don’t agree with their party’s new stance.

Wrote for the @yorkshirepost.co.uk this weekend on #GCSE results & how Boris Johnson govt failing to listen to @annelongfield.bsky.social to pay up on education recovery has made divides in outcomes for long term disadvantaged, including white children even worse www.pressreader.com/uk/yorkshire...

We are proud of what GM has achieved in the first decade of devolution.👇🏻 But we’ve had to fight for it and every scrap of investment. Imagine what more the North could be if backed with the same investment in infrastructure as others parts of the UK! 🤔

Read @andyburnham.bsky.social & Lord Jim O’Neill on Manchester - the productivity growth capital of Britain by @rjpartington.bsky.social

Pleasing to see further follow up to last month's #GlobalTalentFund announcement and the remarkable manner in which the North's universities were overlooked. Read our full response here: www.n8research.org.uk/n8-responds-...

Dismay as north of England universities miss out on share of £54m talent fund. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Read @joshhalliday.bsky.social @theguardian.com for how @ukri.org process awarding #GlobalTalentFund fell short by being arbitrary & inconsistent, leading to them failing to support #NorthEngland Analysis @np-partnership.bsky.social & @chionwurah.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A year on from the Manvers rioting, I spoke to @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social about where we are now - the flashpoint rightly removed, but the atmosphere more poisonous. An asylum system that works well would be part of the “hard edged fairness” that restores public confidence and undermines extremism.

Read @theipaper.com for end of safeguarding on #EasternLeg & what should happen next Oliver Coppard as Metro Mayor & @np-partnership.bsky.social very much in agreement - #MidlandMainline electrification needs to get back on agenda inews.co.uk/news/eastern... @olyduff.bsky.social

Today #BBCBreakfast discussing tourism levies following @ipprnorth.bsky.social yesterday showing wide public support @moreincommonuk.bsky.social Discussed #Manchester #Liverpool raising £6m a year & how it’s attracted #MTV awards & @britawards.bsky.social Mayors need powers to go further

This week’s figures from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership show Rotherham ranking amongst the highest performing local economies for productivity over the last two decades. Surprised? It’s the result of long term investment and partnerships: www.northernpowerhousepartnership.co.uk/productivity...

Great to see Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP up in #north taking practical steps to address inequalities in #health

Today I joined @resfoundation.bsky.social for their event on wage gaps around the country to coincide with the launch of their new report & that by @theifs.bsky.social on graduate wage disparities www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-p...

Speaking at our event @henrimurison.bsky.social says that the London/South East pay premium is perpuated throughout the country. A northern university needs its graduates to move to London to show that its courses deliver a pay premium, even if that doesn't work out well for the local economy.

Read @pickardje.bsky.social on Fair Funding review on.ft.com/4n62OdD At @np-partnership.bsky.social we have been interested for some time in falling spending power of councils with low council tax base in last decade and a half

4/4 @henrimurison.bsky.social of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership said that after years of underfunding for disadvantaged areas "we can now look forward to the future with a fairer settlement.” Sign up to the FREE Northern Agenda for stories like this: www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk

3/4 Northern leaders have for years been urging Ministers to reform the council tax system, which has led to taxpayers in our region paying more than their London counterparts each month and getting poorer public services in return. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

2/4 Full story: newsletters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/LA5ITCVP1wt5... What it will mean for specific councils is yet to be revealed. But the consensus from informed commentators is that poorer Northern towns like Hartlepool will end up benefitting and London boroughs will likely lose out.

This written statement by Local Government Minister @jimmcmahon.co.uk published a few minutes ago could be huge for the North of England and its cash-strapped local councils 1/4

Read @richardvaughan.bsky.social in @theipaper.com for state of play on alternatives #HS2 to maximise the benefits of Phase 1 to #Brum from #Euston In the months ahead, govt has pledged to resolve uncertainty following cancellation of HS2 between #Manchester & #Brum inews.co.uk/news/politic...

In the latest ep of The Northern Agenda podcast, me & @robparsonsna.bsky.social chat to the always ace @henrimurison.bsky.social about what the Spending Review means for the north We also laugh at cringey Commons questions and talk about Rob’s hangover pain podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Today I got to reflect on #SpendingReview alongside north’s dynamic podcasting duo @robparsonsna.bsky.social & @liamthorp.bsky.social My overwhelming case was the politics of grievance is not going to serve #North well. We are the #opportunity to raise productivity & be counterweight to London

Great to be out & about today with @nationalhighways.bsky.social at #BalfourBeatty A57 Mottram scheme officially marking the start of works Great to catch up with Jonathan Reynolds and Jon Pearce as the parliamentarians supporting this vital scheme for their constituents & GM - Sheffield corridor

Great to be off at #UKREiiF with a well attended event with #Mace Next up I’ll be talking opportunities for Government growth mission 🕥 10:30–11:15am Mission Possible? Exploring the Blueprint for a Mission 📍 Tetra Tech Pavilion

Today I’m #bbcpn 10am BBC One #Yorkshire #Lincolnshire Talking Yorkshire Rail Plan from Friday by Lord Blunkett, + perspective from @np-partnership.bsky.social on plans for new housing @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social @tomhunt100.bsky.social & debunking myths solar panels may blind Red Arrow pilots

2/2 Read more on this and the successes (and failures) of the shift of civil servants out of London in my Northern Agenda Extra newsletter here... linkedin.com/pulse/civil-... Graphic by Marianna Longo

Thousands more civil servants will be moving out of London to the regions, @patmcfaddenmp.bsky.social announced today, including at new campuses in Manchester and Aberdeen. There's already been an exodus from the capital under the Places for Growth scheme...here's where they've gone 1/2

Delighted to be #RSA25 chairing session at 4pm panel includes @path-dependent.bsky.social who has been @britishacademy.bsky.social fellow with @np-partnership.bsky.social for last year As business led group we put research front & centre events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det... @regstud.bsky.social

Hull & East Yorks + West of England #MetroMayors could be elected with less 1/3 of vote, as mentioned Hannah Miller & Prof Sir John Curtice. Worth saying after Labour won Cambridgeshire Mayor last govt got rid AV for FPTP. These well under half of votes cast support mayors would be a consequence.

This weekend I’ve written for @yorkshirepost.co.uk on Hull & East Yorkshire Mayoral Election It matters that #Conservative candidate is putting place before party on #NetZero, emulating @andyburnham.bsky.social & part of wider trend he has blazed for Mayors www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

Read Steve Robson in @theipaper.com for a perspective on steel crisis from the #North. Grateful to be asked by Steve for my reflections from us at @np-partnership.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Thanks @alifortescuenews.bsky.social for having me Politics Hub @skynewsrss.bsky.social The need for action to save #Scunthorpe is urgent which govt is seized of, as is also case on situation of sectors with worst tariffs at 25% like not just steel but also automotive youtu.be/Kw2nZPtSZ0g

“Whether we keep blast furnaces or move to electric arc furnaces, the government has to keep steel making in Scunthorpe,” @henrimurison.bsky.social from @np-partnership.bsky.social tells @bbc5live.bsky.social.

Today I’m in #Newcastle for North East Warm Hones Summit, including a speech by Metro Mayor @kimmcguinness.bsky.social

Selling British Steel in 2016 for £1 to a Chinese firm has complicated options for the future of steelmaking in the UK, @henrimurison.bsky.social tells @thatdavidharper.bsky.social. @np-partnership.bsky.social | @lbcnews.bsky.social

Tomorrow I’m giving evidence @houseofcommons.parliament.uk chaired @chionwurah.bsky.social & inc strong supporters innovation city regions like @jon4highpeak.bsky.social I’m alongside Dr Kath MacKay #Bruntwood & following Duncan Johnson #Gritstone Watch it parliamentlive.tv/event/index/51…

Today piece on #TourismTax was on #BBCPoliticsNorth featuring analysis by @christianspence.co.uk #OpenInnovations work for @np-partnership.bsky.social as part of our work on #fiscaldevo bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… Tomorrow at 810am I’ll be joinin#BBCCumbriaia breakfast show to discuss

Great to be here at #ConventionoftheNorth for speech by Angela Rayner. Strong cross party concensus making renewed commitment to single settlements for @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social @westyorkshireca.bsky.social, @lcrmayor.bsky.social, @southyorksmca.bsky.social & @kimmcguinness.bsky.social

Been recovering after a great week, including down in #Bristol with @businesswest.bsky.social alongside @np-partnership.bsky.social Chair Lord Jim O’Neill & wider #GrowingTogether colleagues and on Friday in #Buxton discussing growth opportunities between #Sheffield and #Manchester