Government

Government has driven its local reform agenda over recent years, creating new combined authorities and metro mayors – but how is this translating into work for the construction industry? Ian Weinfass reports

“Too many people already feel that power is distant to them – whether it’s coming from Brussels or Westminster.…

The Conservative Party leadership election was always going to centre on the UK’s Brexit-negotiation strategy. But it's domestic policy that will determine the long-term economic prospects of London and the UK – and, of course, the success of the next government. The newly appointed prime minister has outlined some policies…

In December, Liverpool’s mayor quit the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, and the business case for Northern Powerhouse Rail was delayed. Lucy Alderson asks, has the ambitious project hit the buffers?

On 9 December last year, Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson decided he had had enough. He’d been around since the birth of then-chancellor George Osborne’s brainchild,…