Longstanding outlets like Debenhams and Topshop are just some of the brands to have disappeared from the high street in recent years. The fall of these megaliths, coupled with the rise of internet shopping, has led many to start mourning the death of the high street. This worries politicians. High streets are bellwethers of the […]
As part of its mission to drive up living standards, the Government wants to put more money in people’s pockets in every part of the UK. This is quite some task. For a long time, pockets in some parts of the country have substantially more money in them, and greater potential to add more than […]
Peter Mandelson had a crack at one in 2009. Theresa May had another go in 2017. And there have been a raft of other economic strategies too. Yet despite this we’re going to go round the block again – the new Government is going to write another industrial strategy. If this one isn’t to join the […]
