James spent nearly a decade at the Bank of England, with his most recent role leading the team designing the Bank's future monetary policy toolkit. He has also worked as an economist at the consultancy Capital Economics.
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Spanish practices: giving our mayors the right powers for growth
Mayors are being given more responsibility for growth, housing and transport, but many of the powers needed to deliver still sit in Whitehall. The next stage of devolution requires giving mayors greater power to approve infrastructure, regulate environmental risks, assemble land and raise local funding, so they can make the trade-offs needed to get projects built faster.
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The next big lever: street votes
Street votes allow neighbours to come together and agree on rules for new homes on their street, with benefits flowing to the local residents and community. The Government could enable 30,000 new homes a year in the places people need them most.
Project Hawking: tripling the size of Ox-Cam by 2050
The 100-mile corridor between Oxford and Cambridge is one of the most exciting stretches of land in the world — but today it isn’t doing enough for Britain’s economy as a whole.
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