The Future Governance Forum (FGF)

🚨New speaker @LordBlunkett announced 🚨

The UK needs to build more #Infrastructure. But too many projects are slow to deliver, go over budget or fail to deliver the benefits originally promised.

Join us for an event hosted with @ICE_engineers to explore a new report on how improving public engagement on infrastructure projects could lead to faster, cheaper and smoother delivery.

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What can the highly centralised UK learn from federal Germany when it comes to state reform - and vice versa?

Watch FGF’s Adam Terry discuss the challenges faced by both governments in a panel discussion organised by Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft - which promotes German-British relations.

Adam set out how the Burnham administration is setting about ‘rewiring the state’, how this aims to shift power within the UK and where big questions still remain.

Helmut Anheier, former LSE Professor, gave the German perspective - where each country is facing similar challenges, where there are differences and how politicians from Berlin and Munich to London and Manchester are going about tackling them 🔽🔽🔽

youtube.com/watch?v=4pUW9u…

That was pretty clever stuff from John Healey in his debut Budget as Chancellor.

Facing a very tricky situation — navigating high public expectations on the one hand and nervous bond markets on the other — he managed to more or less keep everyone happy.

Not ecstatic — and there are, and will continue to be, complaints from all sides. But there was never going to be the big spending cuts some on the right were demanding, nor the enormous tax rises on the rich as some on the left were dreaming of.

Full reaction from FGF's Chief Economist @DanRCorry ⤵️

publicfinance.co.uk/opinion/2026/1…

Ahead of today's #Budget we wanted to see more power for mayors and more support for entrepreneurs from the Chancellor.

So it was great to see #Budget2026 committed to unlocking good growth in every postcode by "putting places in control of their economic future" and "backing a new wave of wealth creators"

gov.uk/government/pub…

🚨Upcoming event🚨

The UK needs to build more infrastructure. But too many projects are slow to deliver, go over budget or fail to deliver the benefits originally promised.

Join us for an event hosted with @ICE_engineers to explore a new report on how improving public engagement on infrastructure projects could lead to faster, cheaper and smoother delivery.

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