As Budget day dawns the UK faces huge economic challenges; challenges that the 21 Key UK cities are ideally placed to meet.

We can help drive the increasing need for higher productivity, better skills, more exports and growth in diverse sectors.  Key cities are ‘right sized' and able to co-ordinate policy and action across diverse interests, from coastal cities to those embedded in city regions, from manufacturing cities to those that excel in tourism, from northern cities to southern.