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Articles by Sarah Longlands

Leaping to a four-day week

By Sarah Longlands | 27 September 2023

CLES is permanently adopting a four-day working week, and Sarah Longlands says there is no reason...

A compelling vision

By Sarah Longlands | 24 July 2023

Sarah Longlands says we cannot let pragmatism dampen our belief in better times ahead and she set...

Be brave when times are tough

By Sarah Longlands | 30 May 2023

Inflation may have eased, but there are tough times ahead. Sarah Longlands urges local authoritie...

Getting healthier and wealthier

By Sarah Longlands | 04 April 2023

The potential of Integrated Care Systems to harness their economic heft and level up locally is e...

Investing in the basics

By Sarah Longlands | 30 January 2023

A new kind of northern politics needs a new kind of economic thinking, not the piecemeal approach...

No green shoots from the Spring Statement

By Sarah Longlands | 21 March 2022

Sarah Longlands says that Westminster may be retreating to a pre-COVID state of policy inertia on...

You can't level up from Whitehall

By Sarah Longlands | 07 February 2022

The Levelling up White Paper spent a lot of time talking about ancient history, but will do littl...

Devolved potential in Cornwall is under threat from central Government inertia

By Sarah Longlands | 12 May 2021

Sarah Longlands says that unlike the ‘hero’ style approach of the mayors elsewhere, Cornish devol...

Back where you started

By Sarah Longlands | 16 March 2021

We are 'finally starting to see through the fog of rhetoric on levelling up', says Sarah Longland...

The chancellor must go beyond warm words

By Sarah Longlands | 02 March 2021

Director of IPPR North Sarah Longlands poses three core questions for chancellor Rishi Sunak ahea...