SHINE and its partners have welcomed news that the government is proposing a new model to the way deprivation funding is distributed to schools.
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and critically, an undersupply of these jobs outside London - there is no decline in the graduate wage premia for London

Reform’s reality check in town halls across the country [FREE TO READ] Plus, green jobs risk derailing insurgent party’s national message

More from me in the coming days on Reform’s first forays into managing public finances

But my general takeaway so far is: they’re saying one thing nationally and doing another thing locally, and that may work for a while yet

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Decarbonisation in & beyond the Northern Growth Corridor - Northern Powerhouse Partnership The net zero transition is often framed as a future ambition. New analysis from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership shows that it is already a significant and economically important part of the North ...

Read exclusive by @joshhalliday.bsky.social on new @np-partnership.bsky.social research which highlights #sunderland as net zero capital of the #North

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Full report here

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Great for #Carlisle #Liverpool to host mens & #Leeds #Manchester #Sheffield for women’s race

About to join #TheContext on #BBCNews talking #NorthernPowerhouseRail

About to join @skynewsrss.bsky.social talking #NorthernPowerhouseRail from #Leeds station

It’s now or never when it comes to transforming the North’s economy - Henri Murison At the end of one year and the beginning of the next, it is only natural to take stock. The Government has made a number of positive steps in the right direction. On devolution, the recent budget saw ...

From the next generation of technologies on the AMRC, through the potential of our new Gateway station, Rotherham is ideally placed to be part of a transformed northern economy - if we grasp the opportunities now. @henrimurison.bsky.social sets out how:

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An incredible show @london.gov.uk - really impressive

New Year’s Honours reward Yorkshire's champions | TheBusinessDesk.com Recipients include pair who led the programme for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

Thanks for many kind messages & to those who nominated me in first place for MBE in New Years Honours

I am particularly grateful @np-partnership.bsky.social members led by our Chair’s as well as colleagues past & present

My reflections with @alexturner.uk

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Yesterday the #ORR rightly decided to let passengers keep boarding the 7am to #Euston

At @np-partnership.bsky.social along with leading politicians @andyburnham.bsky.social we had made case for this decision

Watch @itvnews.bsky.social for full story from Amy Welch

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Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision Avanti service was to be pulled from timetable from mid-December but would have still run because of needs out of Euston The express Manchester-London 7am Avanti service will take passengers after all, after the rail regulator conceded defeat in the face of public outcry over a ruling that would have left it running as an empty “ghost train” each day. The 7am train, the only service linking the cities in under two hours, was set to be axed from the passenger table from mid-December – but would, as the Guardian reported on Saturday, have kept running empty from Piccadilly each day so it could run morning trains back out of Euston. Continue reading...

Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision

The #ORR has made right decision which we at @np-partnership.bsky.social welcome

Credit to #ManchesterGuardian (better known these days as @theguardian.com) for their reporting

It dosent change West Coat Mainline is full which is why we need backing of government for new line #Crewe #Handsacre

Good to read reflections on #Darlo from @path-dependent.bsky.social in @telegraph.co.uk

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Thanks to Helen Fielding in @theguardian.com of making the case for her home town of #Leeds & wider #North.

“The north-south divide in Britain is much bigger than in most westernised countries.”

Clearly @joshhalliday.bsky.social & colleagues influence on wider paper knows no bounds

Henri Murison, chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, one of the signatories of the letter, said that international students are “central” to the economies of cities like Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle. “They support local businesses, create jobs, and help sustain our universities, which are key to city regions productivity growth,” he said.

The proposed levy risks pulling the rug out from under one of the few areas where the northern growth corridor currently outperforms its competitors globally.” John Dickie, chief executive of Business LDN which represents firms including Deloitte and Uber, said that scrapping the levy would “support growth and the UK’s international competitiveness”.

Read the @the-independent.com @caitlindoherty.bsky.social for exclusive on letter from business groups on international students levy including @businessldn.bsky.social @np-partnership.bsky.social @ukmusic.bsky.social @techuk.bsky.social to Chancellor

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Live weather report

#StormClaudia in the #Pennines is very rainy

Thanks to @northernrail.bsky.social keeping the #North moving even with the disruption

I think point is both Anti-semitism & Islamophobia are clearly significant issues

In Australia people who’d been to the UK had seen the extreme right marching talked about it & worried for us

They didn’t mention Anti-semitism. it’s OK to mention one or other, both equally terrible, & both matter

About to leave #Brisbane to return home via #Sydney

They are seven years away from hosting @brisbane2032.bsky.social & I wish the organisers all the very best

So am in #Queensland following Australia British Infrastructure catalyst before returning to #Sydney & trying some of public transport in advance of huge improvements planned before @brisbane2032.bsky.social

Just arrived #SunshineCoast via very scenic @queenslandrail.bsky.social #translink

The Government will not announce the investment in rail infrastructure Burnham has been calling for at Labour's party conference

➡️ Read more: trib.al/bJ9bZxB

Andy Burnham’s two-horse act faces a big jump Even mayor’s opponents are leaning into his populist touch but the stakes on a national platform are much higher

Very grateful to @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social for fab newsletter today: www.ft.com/content/ad1c...

Labour 'risks losing election to Reform' if it scraps Red Wall council funding plan A Labour local government chief has warned that Angela Rayner's plans to redistribute Whitehall funding to councils in the Midlands and northern England are at risk

Money alone is not the solution to all our ills. But without clear change, those ills will get much worse. A funding settlement that strengthens local government in poorer northern communities - as we have been promised - is essential to that change.

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Unfortunately for Richard Tice he is talking out of his hat as trams for #ManchesterAirport at #NPR station designed by last govt

@np-partnership.bsky.social support
@bevcraig.bsky.social
@andyburnham.bsky.social
speaking up for #North

Reform would cut investment here in #North

Why Rotherham's recovery is only just beginning: Chris Read Forty years ago, the site that is now Rotherham’s Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) was home to a very different story. In 1984, Orgreave was the scene of one of the most bitter and violent clashes of...

Off to the AMP this morning to see @henrimurison.bsky.social and Northern Powerhouse Partnership colleagues to talk about how far the Rotherham economy has come - and what’s next.

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A huge majority of people think we need to invest in the Northern rail schemes that have been in development for years.

This includes 55% of Reform voters who don’t agree with their party’s new stance.

Wrote for the @yorkshirepost.co.uk this weekend on #GCSE results & how Boris Johnson govt failing to listen to @annelongfield.bsky.social to pay up on education recovery has made divides in outcomes for long term disadvantaged, including white children even worse

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We are proud of what GM has achieved in the first decade of devolution.👇🏻

But we’ve had to fight for it and every scrap of investment.

Imagine what more the North could be if backed with the same investment in infrastructure as others parts of the UK! 🤔

Read @andyburnham.bsky.social & Lord Jim O’Neill on Manchester - the productivity growth capital of Britain by @rjpartington.bsky.social

People in London, particularly the super wealthy, pay half what normal families do in #Hartlepool for better services. Londoners may pay slightly more, but many in #North will get better services