JP Spencer
Economist. Author at Future North writing about the North of England (link below). Director of Devolution Policy, Labour Together.
Posts about policy, politics and the Pennines (and beyond).
📍 West Yorkshire.
🧭 futurenorth.substack.com
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- The debate on the bill to remove the 2-child cap on benefits is ongoing now. Here is @patmcfaddenmp.bsky.social, leading for the Labour government explaining 'why now'...and gives us a good lesson on the importance of being in government to make change, through having a credible plan. 1/5
- Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 30% (-3) LAB: 22% (+4) CON: 19% (+3) GRN: 12% (-3) LDM: 12% (=) Via @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social, 22-27 Jan. Changes w/ 30 Oct - 5 Nov.
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- Genuunely delighted by this: got to know Angeliki well when I was in Manchester and she's both a lovely woman and fantastic councillor. Really good on green stuff and active travel particularly She'd make a excellent MP - Labour are putting forward a good one here.
- Delighted that Angeliki Stogia is Labour’s candidate for Gorton & Denton by-election. She’s a strong Mancunian woman with Labour values & a record of delivery. All our doorstep work is clear, only Labour can win against Reform. Don’t risk voting for others. We chose unity & hope over division.
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- BREAKING: Angeliki Stogia announced as Labour candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election
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- Fascinating thread on productivity growth differentials between regions. 👇
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- This is such a good example of how to apply systems thinking to solve public policy challenges in new ways, both innovative and clearly written
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- This is really very good and a breath of fresh air in an increasingly arid debate about "builders not blockers" People respond to incentives.
- Here's the @labourtogether.bsky.social collab, in which I argue that adversarial-judicial structures aren't "planning" in any normal sense, and we could have more output from the same people doing the same job for the same money www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
- Here's the @labourtogether.bsky.social collab, in which I argue that adversarial-judicial structures aren't "planning" in any normal sense, and we could have more output from the same people doing the same job for the same money www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
- So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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- every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them
- Britain is one of the best places in recorded history to be born, live, work and grow old. Lots of room for improvement obviously but combat the pessimism, it’s the forerunner of fascism.
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- So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
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