Kemi Badenoch has officially become Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party, beating Robert Jenrick at the members’ vote stage of the contest. Her election as leader marks the first black woman in Britain to lead a political party. She started appointing her shadow cabinet on 4th …

Parliament returned on 7th October from party conference season, allowing the government to continue enacting new legislation to deliver its election promises. Mortgage approvals Housing market analysis of the UK published in October stated that mortgage approvals had jumped in September compared to August by 700, representing a two-year high …

Account Executive Caitlin Delaney graduated from Cardiff University in 2022 with an International Relations and Politics degree. After graduating, she joined a leading public affairs headhunting firm, based in Westminster, where she specialised in working with transport and infrastructure clients. During her two years as a headhunter, she gained invaluable …

Account Executive Max Abdulgani is a graduate from the University of York. Whilst at university, he campaigned for a political party and managed the affairs of a parliamentary candidate and newly elected MP. Max has internship experience working with high-profile politicians at a national level and working in policymaking. He …

Mission accomplished? Labour claims planning reform victory, but will local communities be convinced? The Government wasted no time in launching its mission to ‘get Britain building again’, announcing a raft of policies to boost housing and infrastructure in its first 100 days. Chelgate Local’s Michael Hardware assesses the fast-moving policy …

The larger the project the more infrastructure is required – not an unsurprising statement, but what is surprising is the way it is delivered: developers need to engage with numerous bodies and agencies to deliver the infrastructure. A complex, ebergy sapping time consuming combination of various county or unitary departments, …

Consultation is inherently flawed: all have the same failing – by relying on residents to respond there is usually low participation, and those that do respond often have an axe to grind. The result is a skewed representation of community views which does not stand up to any level of …

Parliament returned early, on 2 September, so that the new government could get on with legislation. It rose again on 12 September for the party conferences, to return on 7 October. There has been hardly a day gone by during September without yet another announcement from the government on planning …