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In its constitutional centenary could power be better shared within the UK going forward?

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By James Heywood, Jenevieve Treadwell, Jonathan Werran
| smartthinking.org.uk
As the United Kingdom celebrates its 100th year in its current reconfiguration we asked how power should be shared going forward. October 21, 2021 Focus on how to embed metro mayors and combined authorities into major public investment decisions By James Heywood @JamesHeywood The UK is one of the most centralised nations in the developed world. While the devolved nations now have extensive powers to shape their own futures, devolution within England itself is lagging behind.
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James Heywood: A £20 blanket uplift in Universal Credit would miss an opportunity for better targeted change

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By James Heywood
| ConservativeHome
James Heywood is the Head of Welfare and Opportunity at the Centre for Policy Studies. One of the iron laws of politics is that it is very easy to give things away and extremely difficult to take them back again. That can prove a particular problem when a government has had to put in place unprecedented levels of support to cope with a pandemic. This week, for example, the Labour Party have been loudly claiming that the Chancellor is planning to “slash Universal Credit in the middle of a pandemic”.
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James Heywood: The case for public sector pay restraint is founded on fairness

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By James Heywood
| ConservativeHome
James Heywood is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies. We may be eight months into this pandemic, but we have barely begun to see its full impact on the labour market. The unemployment rate, which has already risen from 3.9 to 4.8 per cent compared to a year ago, is expected by the Bank of England to rise as high as 7.5 per cent, and other forecasts put it much higher still. Wages fell over the summer and wage growth is expected to remain subdued for some time.
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