Tag: northern powerhouse
HS2: the scheme that nobody really wants
Paul Salveson offers thoughts on the announcement on HS2, the Integrated Rail Plan and more U-turns
Not on track
Cat Smith on rail promises and reality
Nuclear fantasy
Dave Toke says Government plans for a programme of small nuclear power stations is a costly non-starter
Johnson’s economic populism
Bryn Jones finds the Tories' adaptation to state intervention is an opportunity for a Labour counter-offensive
Northern Powerhouse puffs along
Paul Salveson on northern routes and the likelihood of HS2 hitting the buffers
Northern Powerlessness
Paul Salveson on Tory vanity projects
One of George Osborne’s more interesting policy interventions was ‘The Northern Powerhouse’. For a while it seemed it might...