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Rosie Lockwood

@rosielockwood.bsky.social
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Associate Director of External Affairs for CLES丨former Mayor of Selby in God's own country丨Social justice, campaigns & comms 丨Toddler mum

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The Centre for Local Economies (CLES) @clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
CLES has a fresh new identity 🌱 From today, we are the Centre for Local Economies - an independent think tank and charity that puts economics in its place 🏘️ 🔗 www.cles.org.uk
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The Centre for Local Economies (CLES) @clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Members of the Scottish Parliament have just voted to pass the world’s first piece of legislation on Community Wealth Building This is a huge opportunity to ensure that when Scotland has economic growth, we use it to reduce wealth inequality and support communities to thrive
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’m really excited to be recruiting a Comms Officer to work closely with me on CLES’s communications 💫 2026 is going to be a fab year to join us. We’ll celebrate our 40th birthday, launch our new-look brand and website, and we’ve big ambitions to step up our news and advocacy profile 💪🏻 See here 👇🏻
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
A chart showing child poverty in the UK increasing sharply if the two child limit remains in place, and falling if it is scrapped.
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Zoë Billingham @zoebillingham.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Great to have worked with many of England’s mayors, @np-partnership.bsky.social, @centreforcities.bsky.social & @clesthinkdo.bsky.social on helping to make the case 🙌
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“In the absence of devolved fiscal powers, regional policymakers can…pre-distribute wealth as it is created (not waiting until after corporations have made their billions to then rely on taxing it)“ @leahmillthorne.bsky.social for the New Statesman👇🏻 www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
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The Mamdani moment
What New York's next mayor could teach Britain's local leadership.
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Sarah Longlands @sarahlonglands.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Really proud that we are publishing this new work today as part of Reclaiming Our Regional Economies. Making extraction visible - it matters because this is about using public resources effectively in the public interest
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The Centre for Local Economies (CLES) @clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The English Devo Bill could rewire economies for people. With @sianberry.bsky.social we're tabling three improvements: 🪙 New clause 31: Community wealth building ❤️ Amendment 255: Health & wellbeing in all policies 🤝 New schedule 1 & new clause 29: Inclusive economies ✒️ cles.org.uk/blog/lets-do...
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The Centre for Local Economies (CLES) @clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We are proud to announce that our Chief Executive, Dr @sarahlonglands.bsky.social, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 👏 www.gov.uk/government/n...
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The Centre for Local Economies (CLES) @clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
When one company – like Jaguar Land Rover – dominates a local economy, its crisis can ripple through communities 🌊 @oliver-chan.bsky.social spoke to @lbc.co.uk's Jonathan Ray about the impact of the JLR hack + how we need to build resilient, locally rooted economies 📻 ⤵️
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Some ✨ professional news ✨
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 26/08/2025
A classroom of children dies every day in Gaza. Yet since the war started in October 2023, only 80 children have been granted visas to come to the UK. ✏️ @amreenqureshi.bsky.social writes about the need for a Gaza Family Visa Scheme 👇 www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-gaza-f...
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The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine
With dozens of children dying in Gaza every day, the UK must show the same flexibility it demonstrated in past crises
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IPPR Scotland @ipprscotland.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🎉10th ANNIVERSARY🎉 A decade ago, IPPR Scotland was established in a big moment of change to support progressive policymaking. 📢Now, as Scotland faces fresh challenges, we’re hosting a major conference to ask: What next? 🗓️Save the date: 29 Oct 2025 www.ippr.org/events/ippr-...
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IPPR Scotland: 10th Anniversary Conference | IPPR
Ten years ago, in the wake of the Scottish Independence referendum, there emerged a clear need for a think tank to support progressive policymaking and fos
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thanks to the RHS for their flower pot men bringing joy to Sheffield train station this morning. Ingenious marketing 🌺
Two men dressed as flower pots at Sheffield train station
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henrimurison.bsky.social @henrimurison.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Today #BBCBreakfast discussing tourism levies following @ipprnorth.bsky.social yesterday showing wide public support @moreincommonuk.bsky.social Discussed #Manchester #Liverpool raising £6m a year & how it’s attracted #MTV awards & @britawards.bsky.social Mayors need powers to go further
Henri Murison on BBC Breakfast sofa
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today I’ve published an intervention @ipprnorth.bsky.social on visitor levies 🏨 Backed by calls from Mayors like Oliver Coppard and @davidskaith.bsky.social, the @yorkshirepost.co.uk says it puts pressure on Rachel Reeves to hand over the power to Mayors 🧵
The front page of today's Yorkshire Post.
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Health Equity North @healthequitynorth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our Exec Director @hannahdavies.bsky.social has written for the @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social about how the free school meals announcement is a positive step, but the two-child cap cannot remain in force if child poverty is to be addressed newsletters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/hefrpKHwGlUl...
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🦸‍♂️ The not-so-super councilNorthern Agenda
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IPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Today’s the day 🗓️ The Spending Review is a chance to rewire the economy in favour of regions 🔌 All eyes now on The Chancellor 📺 🔗 politico.eu/article/rach...
Screengrab of the linked article featuring the IPPR North comment.
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Luke Raikes @lukeraikes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Great to see a push from mayors for a visitor levy/tourist tax recently. An absolute no brainer. In the UK 5% of tax is raised locally/regionally - compared to 13% in France and 31% in Germany Those countries have DOUBLE the rate of local economic investment That's no coincidence
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Sometimes suspect the political argument “let’s build trams in the north” gets dismissed as “pacifying anti-London Brexit voters who aren’t grateful for their fiscal transfers”. No. There is a deep, broad social understanding here of the lag, and the economic reasons for closing it (even a bit!)
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Luke Raikes @lukeraikes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
‘Am I better off?’ – at a general election, this is THE question voters will ask New analysis shows living standards declined under the last government This government can do better. We set out how. 👇
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/04/2025
UK parents with babies in neonatal care gain right to paid leave
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UK parents with babies in neonatal care gain right to paid leave
Measures hailed as lifeline for parents will allow people with sick babies to take up to 12 weeks’ leave Parents with children in neonatal care will gain a day-one right to paid leave and pay in a move hailed as “a lifeline for parents” with sick babies. From Sunday, the measures will allow eligible parents to take up to 12 weeks of leave and pay, on top of maternity and paternity leave. Continue reading...
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amreenqureshi.bsky.social @amreenqureshi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🚨 Today, we publish new research that lays bare the scale of child poverty in migrant families. 46% of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty - almost double the rate for other children. The govt cannot tackle child poverty without tackling issues in our migration system. 🧵⬇️
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Lucy Mort @lucyhbmort.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This time last week I spoke at the Home Affairs Select Committee about fixing our asylum accommodation system. We urgently need to shift power regionally and locally, improve safeguarding, and move away from mass sites - towards community solutions that work for everyone.
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IPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The North holds the key to solving to many of the country’s economic problems, if only we reverse abject underinvestment – where a northerner can expect the gov to spend less on them than their counterpart in London 🔑 ✒️ @rosielockwood.bsky.social for The MJ www.themj.co.uk/change-statu...
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Time to change the status quo
As the chancellor works on the Spending Review, she's doing more than balancing spreadsheets – she's designing the UK's future economy. Will she stick with the...
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
'Regional income growth is some of the slowest in Europe: real incomes in the majority of European regions have grown at a faster rate than those in UK' Sobering analysis from @niesrorg.bsky.social ⤵️
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What an absolutely terrible metaphor to use for the north of England 👀
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We need a New Deal for the North. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Westminster be warned – Britain’s future will be decided in the north. Get on the right side of that | Andy Burnham
As political and business leaders meet for the Convention of the North, our position is clear: we need a genuine new deal, and soon, says Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Good morning from my part of the North, where all trains to today’s *Convention of the North* are cancelled 🙃
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IPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy new year! 🪇 Looking to the year ahead, @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social have helpfully compiled a list of key moments to look out for, from the Convention of the North to the Comprehensive Spending Review 🔍 Featuring a comment from @rosielockwood.bsky.social 🗣️ thenorthernagenda.co.uk
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Hello from Leeds where I'm joining the Deputy Prime Minister for the launch of the English Devolution White Paper, representing @ipprnorth.bsky.social I'm feeling positive - in a country with deep inequalities, devolution is a promise that must be delivered
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Britain is famously over centralised (last I looked 96p of ever £1 of tax goes to Whitehall) and local leaders need the right powers to play their part in Labour’s promised ‘national renewal’. A citizens’ jury by Centre for Progressive Policy demonstrated public get the importance of fiscal devo
The jury expressed support for giving local governments greater powers
over spending and taxation, as long as certain conditions are met. The
jury overwhelmingly favoured greater fiscal devolution as a means of
strengthening local governments to become enablers of fair growth, with
84% saying they supported further fiscal devolution in principle.

The jury collectively developed five core principles they believed should
underpin a future framework for fiscal devolution – it must be responsive
to the needs of local people; ensure local and national priorities are balanced; have clear accountability structures; have budget transparency and be open to public scrutiny; and rebuild capacity in local institutions to ensure a level playing field between areas.

The jury overwhelmingly favoured greater
fiscal devolution as a means of strengthening local governments to become enablers of fair growth, with 84% saying they supported further fiscal devolution in principle
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Arianna Giovannini @ariannagiovannini.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🔌 While we keep waiting for the publication of the white paper on English devo, here’s a good essay on ‘the shape of devolution’ from @rosielockwood.bsky.social & @ryanswift93.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social 🧩 www.ippr.org/articles/the...
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The shape of devolution | IPPR
Finding the right shape of the footprints to devolve power to in England is a complex exercise that requires consideration of a wide range of issues includ
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Zoë Billingham @zoebillingham.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Should the boundaries of devolution England follow the lines of ‘functional economic geographies’? Read this great new essay from @rosielockwood.bsky.social & @ryanswift93.bsky.social from @ipprnorth.bsky.social to find out…
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Government will soon publish the English Devolution White Paper 📜 So the question arises again: in a landscape of ad-hoc political geographies & devolution deserts, what shape should devolution take? 🏘️ @ryanswift93.bsky.social & I explore & explain 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...
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The shape of devolution | IPPR
Finding the right shape of the footprints to devolve power to in England is a complex exercise that requires consideration of a wide range of issues includ
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“… humans are messy. So too are the places we live. We don’t fit into neat boxes, and drawing lines that often feel artificial on a map can create more problems than it solves… we need to get serious about how subnational governance, and the communities that it is made of, are organised” Read this👇
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Ryan Swift @ryanswift93.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
As we look ahead to the English Devolution White Paper, @rosielockwood.bsky.social and I have a new essay out exploring the different ways in which the footprint of devolution deals can be determined. www.ippr.org/articles/the...
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The shape of devolution | IPPR
Finding the right shape of the footprints to devolve power to in England is a complex exercise that requires consideration of a wide range of issues includ
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IPPR Scotland @ipprscotland.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
IPPR Scotland director @stephenboydippr.bsky.social responds to today's budget. Stay tuned for further analysis of the budget ⤵️
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Hannah Davies @hannahdavies.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Completely unacceptable 👇
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Casey Smith @caseysmithippr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Budget day is here! 🎉 While the headlines are sure to focus on Winter Fuel, NHS spend, and other policy commitments, there is a larger issue which needs addressed: remedying how UK and Scottish budgets cohere and countering the impulse to frontload budgets with expedient, short-termist policies.
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Anita Bhadani @anita-bh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A great place to start if you're looking for accounts to follow on Bluesky 🦋👇🏼
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Stephen Boyd @stephenboydippr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My brilliant colleague @rosielockwood.bsky.social has compiled this starter pack of women working in policy, politics, research and media in Scotland - enjoy!
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Would you like to follow the voices of brilliant women working in policy, politics, research, media and more across Scotland? If so, I have a starter pack for you 🌟⤵️ go.bsky.app/TyaxnV5
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Rosie Lockwood @rosielockwood.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today is equal pay day - the day when women in the UK effectively work for free for the rest of the year, because of the gender pay gap 🙃 To mark the occasion, I've made 'Women of the North' starter pack of the incredible northern women you need to follow... go.bsky.app/P6Hu5Qk
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