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London Mayoral candidate series: Natasha Asghar

London Mayoral candidate series: Natasha Asghar There is a long list of reasons why I decided to throw my hat into the ring to become the Conservative candidate for next year’s Mayor of London election. Aside from being asked by countless Londoners to “go for it” another reason which really spurred me on was myContinue reading “London Mayoral candidate series: Natasha Asghar”

Digital Transformation

What is driving Digital Transformation? Digital transformation is not just a matter of updating and upgrading information technology systems, but rather making the best use of technology to establish how, when and where your organisation does business. The COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses around the world to transform overnight. Businesses have had to become more agile,Continue reading “Digital Transformation”

Cities are still the most viable locations for new housing

Housing policy surely is the driver of the levelling up strategy. What is more significant to a person’s life than where they live? It determines where they shop, how they travel, where they send their children to school, where they work, who they are friends with, and what they believe about our country. To truly level up housing can have real positive effects as it will create an imperative for joined-up infrastructure. If supplied in quality and quantity, it will become affordable and attractive for young people, and as it does so, it will bring jobs and industry which will spread wealth like an ink spot across the region.

Let’s get London and our cities moving again

The Government must remember the importance of London and other cities regional influence. Without which the entire country could level-down. By focussing on only the short term operational aspect, large office based London businesses may see a slight recovery, but support industries around them may collapse which will lead to longer term pain. On this occasion working together to protect the centre is protecting the rest.

Getting everyone back to work will save the economy

The Government must remember the importance of London and other cities’ regional influence on productivity – a problem in the UK even before Covid-19 – without which the entire country could level-down. By focussing on only the short-term operational aspect, large office-based London businesses may see a slight recovery, but support industries around them may collapse which will lead to longer term pain. On this occasion, working together to protect the centre is protecting the rest.

We need more innovation to reopen schools

Education is the silver bullet. In the formative years it gives children the skills to interact properly with their peers; as adolescents it delivers the abilities to contribute meaningfully to society; and as young adults it can deliver advanced knowledge to bring about innovation and societal progression. Education is progressive by its very nature; you cannot build the space shuttle before learning your times tables or even learning how to interact socially; the reason why the formative years are so aptly named.

To be One Nation Conservatives means winning over Londoners too

Disraeli, the father of modern Conservatism, famously wrote in his novel Sybil, the nineteenth century equivalent of a docudrama, of “two nations… who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts and feelings as if they were inhabitants of different planets.” Disraeli was speaking of the rich and the poor, the conditions of whom were vastly more stark than today, at the height of the Industrial Revolution. However, one need only to look at a before and after map of the 2019 General Election to see the emergence of two, separate “nations”, particularly in England and Wales; those in the cities and towns – and those who are not.