This year’s election campaign has seen plenty of mudslinging but little discussion of the issues that matter. Guy Corbet of Fourteen Forty looks at seven key points for business which we should have heard more about.
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A new era: the changing face of the Commons
This week the UK goes to the polls. The new Parliament is likely to be the youngest and most diverse ever. How could this change politics? Andrew Niblett and Tom Blake of Navigate Politics discuss.
All change. More of the same
We summarise our ten predictions for this General Election year.
Weak Links: Autumn’s political landscape. Inclusive comms. How to get a book deal
Three short reads to inform, refresh, and reinvigorate, from our Weak Links newsletter.
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Labour set for a juggling act as they as they eye up the keys to Downing Street
By Charles Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of Navigate Politics
With a General Election a year or so away (give or take), the mortgage crisis, back-to-back strikes and rising immigration are all creating a serious headache for the Government.
However, whether they’re simply being too risk-averse, fear alienating voters or are biding their time, Labour give the impression that many pages of their internal policy strategy still read ‘intentionally blank’.
As the long campaign cranks into full gear, we’ve taken a look at the areas Labour will be hoping to capitalise on and build their own narrative as we approach the election…
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Budget bingo: whose numbers will the Chancellor call?
Hunt has put everyone in the firing line ahead of the autumn statement. Now it’s a case of seeing which grave measures he is prepared to put into practice
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Hey. We’re the future again.
In his final prime minister’s questions, David Cameron famously observed that he had been the future once. Then he was out. Well, PM Sunak’s first cabinet shows that past performance is not necessarily an indication of future results.
His cabinet is characterised by recalls from the Cameron, May, Johnson and even Truss eras. A cabinet of all the talents, internal constituencies or conflicting factions…
The honeymoon is over for Liz Truss
At 12.37 today, the worst-kept secret in British politics was revealed. Liz Truss is the new leader of the Conservative Party. Tomorrow, she will officially be appointed Prime Minister by the Queen. Her premiership begins in crisis and the honeymoon is already over.
Company cultures are running on fumes: should we return to the office?
By Guy Corbet, Fourteen Forty
We’ve learned an awful lot about working from home. It has given many people the freedom to combine work with more family time. It has been the miracle that has kept the economy spluttering on through the lockdowns.
Many now don’t want to go back to the old normal drudgery of commuting to the office.
In the cold light of day, and in the long run, will that position really be possible to maintain? And are we seeing that company cultures are already running on fumes?
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Five 2021 predictions to ignore (or at least take with a pinch of salt)
By Gareth Streeter, Fourteen Forty
Writers of “2021 predictions” lists have indulged the temptation to be both dramatic and definitive. And they all follow one clear narrative. Covid will depart. It will leave behind it a world that is forever changed.
But does the available evidence bear this out? Or have some of our would-be futurologists over-egged the pudding?
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