#BoxingDay - as you lay back on the sofa and contemplate whether to have another choc, look back to busier times, with our #CLES2024 event highlights - including this clutch (gaggle? flock?) of mayors at #LPC24 - write up from @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social here 🔗 https://buff.ly/4f6FFmb

Publications - Future Governance Forum Britain’s system of government is in desperate need of a reset after years of cumulative economic, environmental, and political crises.

I wrote this after attending #LPC24, where - inevitably - the separation of many things that should be united was manifest.

Several FGF papers speak to elements of this - notably Mission Critical 01 and Impactful Devolution 01 (so do read): www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/publications/

🎧 Listen back to our fringe events from #LPC24 last week in Liverpool and catch up on our panels on industrial strategy, devolution, public services, net zero, standards in government, missions, and more.

➡ www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-la...

A better Northampton & a better Britain 🇬🇧

Read my column in the @ChronandEcho on the changed country that our @UKLabour Government is working to build 👇

#change #changebegins #Northampton #LPC24

www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/opinion...

Minister: ‘It is not acceptable’ to not have a mayor The government wants all English regions to have a mayor because they are “part of our system going ...

Appearing on an @instituteforgov.bsky.social #LPC24 panel on Monday, Jim McMahon called for all English regions to have a mayor. In a new IfG report Akash Paun and I
I show some of the options across the regions www.lgcplus.com/politics/dev...

Welcome news from the PM today on providing housing for survivors of domestic abuse, young care leavers and veterans - housing is so often the foundation of recovery and survival 🏡 #LPC24

34 events down, one to go! Our final session at Labour Party conference 2024...

How can Labour deliver its growth mission?

Discussing now at #LPC24, with:
👉 Rachel Reeves
👉 Heather Boushey
👉 Harry Quilter-Pinner

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQa...

Great to be in discussion with Wes Streeting at #LPC24 yesterday hearing about his first impressions of the Department of Health and Social Care, views on the start of the spending review process and policy priorities 👍

So thrilled with the turnout at our @ffc_commission and partners fringe at #LPC24. Brilliant words from Rt Hon Carwyn Jones Claire Hazelgrove MP Farmers James Rebanks Sophie Gregory Andy Cato and Baroness Barbara Young. What a gang! What a movement for change… Fix food, and we fix the planet.

Tomorrow morning, Prof #MarianaMazzucato be on #BBCr4today at 6:50am to discuss what the #UK can do to improve its chronically #low rates of #investment. Looking ahead to the chancellors speech at #UKLabour conference tomorrow afternoon, #LPC24

Listen live or at #BBCSounds.

Is Labour on track to meet its promises on the environment? Though the party has plenty to celebrate at its first conference in power for 15 years, there is much work to do to on net zero

Is Labour on track to meet its promises on the environment?

Analysis by Fiona Harvey: #LPC24

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good start to #LPC24 at the Green Alliance event on putting climate at the heart of this government’s missions. Yes to more deliberative and inclusive approaches!

Angela Rayner will pledge decent, safe homes for all in Labour conference speech Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will open Labour’s first party conference in power for 15 years on Sunday

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will pledge decent homes for all in speech that puts dismal state of UK housing front and centre of Labour party conference:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

#LPC24

Here we go! #LPC24

Wide but shallow: where does Labour’s next majority come from?

At #LPC24, we will be sharing new research on Labour’s precarious electoral coalition.

Alongside @chrishopkins92.bsky.social, the panel will include Labour MP Meg Hillier and @tombaldwin66.bsky.social.

📅 Mon 23 Sept, 10:30-11:30am

🗣️1 WEEK TO GO #LPC24
🏘️Where does the private rented sector fit into Labour's plans for housing?

Hear from Vicky Spratt, Gràinne Gilmore, Nigel Terrington & SMF's Jamie Gollings
(further speakers to be announced)

🗓️ Sept 23, 9am
Kindly supported by Paragon Bank

🚨1 WEEK TO GO #LPC24
🎲Bad money: the economics of gambling harm

Hear from gambling minister Baroness Twycross,
Sarah Coombes MP, Prof Heather Wardle, SMF's Dr James Noyes, Prof Adrian Pabst & William Hutton exploring the relationship between gambling and the economy.

📅 Sept 24, 10am