Articles by Sarah Longlands
Be brave when times are tough
By Sarah Longlands | 30 May 2023
Inflation may have eased, but there are tough times ahead. Sarah Longlands urges local authoritie...
Getting healthier and wealthier
By Sarah Longlands | 04 April 2023
The potential of Integrated Care Systems to harness their economic heft and level up locally is e...
Investing in the basics
By Sarah Longlands | 30 January 2023
A new kind of northern politics needs a new kind of economic thinking, not the piecemeal approach...
No green shoots from the Spring Statement
By Sarah Longlands | 21 March 2022
Sarah Longlands says that Westminster may be retreating to a pre-COVID state of policy inertia on...
You can't level up from Whitehall
By Sarah Longlands | 07 February 2022
The Levelling up White Paper spent a lot of time talking about ancient history, but will do littl...
Devolved potential in Cornwall is under threat from central Government inertia
By Sarah Longlands | 12 May 2021
Sarah Longlands says that unlike the ‘hero’ style approach of the mayors elsewhere, Cornish devol...
Back where you started
By Sarah Longlands | 16 March 2021
We are 'finally starting to see through the fog of rhetoric on levelling up', says Sarah Longland...
The chancellor must go beyond warm words
By Sarah Longlands | 02 March 2021
Director of IPPR North Sarah Longlands poses three core questions for chancellor Rishi Sunak ahea...
Westminster must not sidestep local capacity and expertise on net zero
By Sarah Longlands | 19 January 2021
Local government has already shown its commitment to net zero, so it is crucial that Government i...
The restructure we require is not to be found in our town halls
By Sarah Longlands | 08 September 2020
The devolution White Paper will reveal Boris Johnson's 'northern growth body'. But this will have...
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