Every time I see charts like this, I feel obliged to point out that the real scandal isn't the fees charged by private schools.

It's the almost criminal under-investment in state-supported schools and colleges.

The green line on that chart is the direct result of govt policy...

Great to see Joel Hills putting National Institute of Economic and Social Research finding of no sustained regional regeneration to the PM.

Worth noting that over the past 4 years the gap in living standards between London & the North East has widened not narrowed

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Stephen Millard

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills that Teesside is proof the government is delivering on the Conservatives 2019 election promise to “level-up every part of the country.”

Yesterday, National Institute of Economic and Social Research said it can find “no evidence of sustained regional…

I wrote it, Ros Hutchinson. Despite the threat of VAT, private school applications are the second highest in history. I have no doubt that the sector will be fine, and that Labour will raise a decent sum of money. My full article is here: schoolsweek.co.uk/avoiding-vat-i… Schools Week

FDI attraction and regional development - based on some work with OFI

TPI FDI Briefing 4
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(Productivity Insights Paper 33)
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(Blog) How can inward investment become more transformational?
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The Home Secretary's absurd tweet has been community noted

Er, James…… This is your Government’s policy to help 20,000 Syrian refugees, announced just after this article!

Which 4 days later you welcomed!! “I welcome David Cameron’s announcement that the UK will provide sanctuary to thousands more Syrians” cleverly4braintree.com/news/syrian-re… 🤦‍♀️

This passes for debate ?

“the West Midlands has done particularly poorly, a function… of a lack of investment and the region’s manufacturers being hard hit by Brexit red tape” theguardian.com/business/artic…

How dim do you have to be to think that’s a gotcha question ?

Show me that you don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation

great to discover that UEA Economics are still running experiments where students can 'win money' - my son is £30 better off

When the best you have is “we managed a state funeral”

So she’s engaging with a group she deems worthy of her time without treating it as photo op - how very dare she

Police confirm 'no racist slurs or language' in viral video that 'made teacher's life hell'
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Politics can be noisy, tumultuous, and cruel, and there are people who take advantage of that to suit their own hunger for power.

There is always a cost. This time, an innocent woman, and every person who saw that video and felt the sting of that slur.

Anyone who watched the video going round purporting to ID racist comments should see this. If you shared it, share this - she is in bits and for no good reason at all.

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Jeremy Hunt wears the badge of Chief Tory Gaslighter of the Day when he says that every contractor who didn't deliver on the VIP PPE Lane is being pursued by the police.

They aren't. Many firms who delivered useless PPE have since been dissolved, money gone.

Tories have had to…

Following that logic, he’s not your mayor so it’s nothing to do with you - think you might be the 🤡?

Can anyone remind me who the free speech tsar is - surely we should be hearing from them on this matter ?