20 Miles More: ResPublica supports a new campaign to extend HS2 to Liverpool

31^st January 2014

Media Coverage

Read the 20 Miles More letter here.

The signees:

• Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica
• Tom Cannon, Professor of Strategic Development, University of Liverpool Management School
• Earl of Derby, President of Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton Chambers of Commerce
• Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Planning and Regeneration, The Bartlett, UCL
• Tom Morris, Founder, Home Bargains
• Jim Teasdale, Chief Executive, Mersey Maritime Group
• Geoff Wainwright, Founder and Executive Director, 2Bio
• Guy Wallis, Co-founder, DWF; founder, Liverpool in London Business Embassy
• Ian Wray, Professor, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, University of Liverpool

Press Coverage:

Financial Times – The leaving-out of Liverpool is wrong

The Telegraph – Extend HS2 to Liverpool, campaigners say

Video Interview for Bay TV Liverpool – 20 Miles More campaign demands Liverpool link for HS2

The Business Desk – Liverpool pushes for HS2 link

Fresh Business Thinking – HS2 in Liverpool

Liverpool Echo – Liverpool takes HS2 rail fight to government & Liverpool will be ‘strangled’ unless it gets HS2 railway line

The Liverpool Confidential – Liverpool link to HS2 demanded in new campaign

Insider Media Limited – ‘Overwhelming’ case to take HS2 to Liverpool

To find out more about the campaign, please visit 20milesmore.com

ResPublica Welcomes Government’s Community Energy Strategy

27^th January 2014

News

The Government has today published the UK’s first ever Community Energy Strategy. ResPublica welcomes the move, which has the potential to dramatically scale up community energy across the UK.

Does the investment industry really provide value to investors?

27^th January 2014

Media Coverage

In a video interview with Investment Week, Phillip Blond calls for tax breaks given to ISAs and pensions to be scrapped.

To fix our broken energy market, we need Help to Supply

27^th January 2014

Media Coverage

Caroline Julian on why the government should do more to help communities, local authorities and businesses not only produce but supply their own power, in the New Statesman.

ResPublica’s Phillip Blond finds an audience at the Reform Alliance Conference in Dublin, Ireland

26^th January 2014

Media Coverage

Press coverage of Phillip Blond speaking at the Reform Alliance Conference in Dublin.

Jury is still out on whether Reform Alliance can fill the political party gap

26^th January 2014

Media Coverage

Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica, speaks at the Reform Alliance Conference in Dublin.

9 things we learned from the Reform Alliance’s ‘monster meeting’

25^th January 2014

Media Coverage

ResPublica’s Phillip Blond speaks at the Reform Alliance conference in Dublin, Ireland.

Towards a Responsible Pay Structure

24^th January 2014

Media Coverage

Compass publishes Baroness Lister’s essay from ResPublica’s ‘The Virtue of Enterprise’.

The Guardian serialises ResPublica’s latest publication ‘The Virtue of Enterprise’.

22^nd January 2014

Media Coverage

Essays from ResPublica’s latest ‘The Virtue of Enterprise’ are now available on the Guardian website.

Rebuilding Britain’s Institutional Fabric: The transformative role of the Church of England

22^nd January 2014

Media Coverage

Caroline Julian and James Noyes write for Crucible.