Localis is looking forward to hosting events with council leaders and policy makers from local authorities across the country at the LGA Conference in Birmingham this year. As part of a full programme of events, on Tuesday 3 July, we will be hosting a private dinner with a number of key figures from local government […]
Our new report on delivering the industrial strategy includes public polling by YouGov on people’s attitudes to work. We included the polling as part of the research because government has framed its industrial strategy as a plan to address the country’s lagging productivity. A large part of this means British workers doing their job better […]
One of the key arguments of our new report on delivering the industrial strategy is that it should begin from recognising the economy rewards people differently for their labour depending on where in the country they work. Thinking about output and reward in these terms seems unorthodox. However a place’s position in relation to the […]
A growing disconnect between people’s efforts at the workplace and how well they feel their bosses reward them risks stalling Government’s industrial strategy, a report issued today by Localis has argued. Exclusive polling undertaken by YouGov for Localis showed exactly half of those surveyed felt they were paid less than they deserved, a third (31%) […]
Government should scoop up millions of pounds worth of funds lying dormant in thousands of business apprenticeship levy accounts to help jump-start a skills revolution across England’s regions, a new report issued today by Localis has argued. The recommendation is made in a Localis report entitled ‘Working Better Together – colleges collaborating to succeed’ which […]
More than a third (35%) of higher education bodies fail to produce a single graduate start-up firm to boost local economic growth, a new report from think-tank Localis has revealed today. The report found although universities are responsible for one in every hundred new business births annually – creating 4,224 businesses employing 44,335 people and […]
The highest rates of employment growth are concentrated in the places that voted to leave the European Union, Localis said today (Wednesday) in response to labour market figures published in the Annual Population Survey. Of the twenty local authority districts estimated to be recording fastest growth in employment rates between October 2016 and September 2017, […]
In response to today’s publication of the Industrial Strategy White Paper, Localis chief executive, Liam Booth-Smith, said: “The decision to give England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) primary control for strategic economic planning is a disappointing and sub-optimal option for driving national growth and productivity. “In March this year our paper ‘The Making of an Industrial […]
The United Kingdom has one critical flaw: there are too many English people. There are in fact five times as many English as the other three nations combined. This has always led to the perception of English dominance, and the practical risk that the English can outvote their partner nations. Over the years this problem […]
Let England assume its shape, wrote Orwell in 1941. In a fundamental shift in power the native genius of the people had to be freed; and the inefficiency, class privilege and the rule of the old dispelled. His point was democratic but more so of destiny. Only by the people taking charge could transformative freedom […]