Opinion

Andy Burnham speaking at a podium with a woman signing next to him in Manchester

Forget Manchester, Rotherham offers a lesson in ‘good growth’

To achieve genuine regional growth, the government’s devolution agenda must focus on improving firm-level productivity and transforming industrial structures rather than relying on surface-level infrastructure projects, says Paul Ormerod Andy Burnham’s government is attracting a lot of criticism in the media. Its apparent focus is on lots of rather trivial matters whilst major issues are […]