Rosie Lockwood
@rosielockwood.bsky.social
Associate Director of External Affairs for CLES丨former Mayor of Selby in God's own country丨Social justice, campaigns & comms 丨Toddler mum
“In the absence of devolved fiscal powers, regional policymakers can…pre-distribute wealth as it is created (not waiting until after corporations have made their billions to then rely on taxing it)“
@leahmillthorne.bsky.social for the New Statesman👇🏻
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
@leahmillthorne.bsky.social for the New Statesman👇🏻
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
The Mamdani moment
What New York's next mayor could teach Britain's local leadership.
www.newstatesman.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“In the absence of devolved fiscal powers, regional policymakers can…pre-distribute wealth as it is created (not waiting until after corporations have made their billions to then rely on taxing it)“
@leahmillthorne.bsky.social for the New Statesman👇🏻
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
@leahmillthorne.bsky.social for the New Statesman👇🏻
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
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Really proud that we are publishing this new work today as part of Reclaiming Our Regional Economies.
Making extraction visible - it matters because this is about using public resources effectively in the public interest
Making extraction visible - it matters because this is about using public resources effectively in the public interest
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Really proud that we are publishing this new work today as part of Reclaiming Our Regional Economies.
Making extraction visible - it matters because this is about using public resources effectively in the public interest
Making extraction visible - it matters because this is about using public resources effectively in the public interest
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The English Devo Bill could rewire economies for people. With @sianberry.bsky.social we're tabling three improvements:
🪙 New clause 31: Community wealth building
❤️ Amendment 255: Health & wellbeing in all policies
🤝 New schedule 1 & new clause 29: Inclusive economies
✒️ cles.org.uk/blog/lets-do...
🪙 New clause 31: Community wealth building
❤️ Amendment 255: Health & wellbeing in all policies
🤝 New schedule 1 & new clause 29: Inclusive economies
✒️ cles.org.uk/blog/lets-do...
October 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The English Devo Bill could rewire economies for people. With @sianberry.bsky.social we're tabling three improvements:
🪙 New clause 31: Community wealth building
❤️ Amendment 255: Health & wellbeing in all policies
🤝 New schedule 1 & new clause 29: Inclusive economies
✒️ cles.org.uk/blog/lets-do...
🪙 New clause 31: Community wealth building
❤️ Amendment 255: Health & wellbeing in all policies
🤝 New schedule 1 & new clause 29: Inclusive economies
✒️ cles.org.uk/blog/lets-do...
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We are proud to announce that our Chief Executive, Dr @sarahlonglands.bsky.social, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 👏
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
October 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We are proud to announce that our Chief Executive, Dr @sarahlonglands.bsky.social, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 👏
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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When one company – like Jaguar Land Rover – dominates a local economy, its crisis can ripple through communities 🌊
@oliver-chan.bsky.social spoke to @lbc.co.uk's Jonathan Ray about the impact of the JLR hack + how we need to build resilient, locally rooted economies 📻 ⤵️
@oliver-chan.bsky.social spoke to @lbc.co.uk's Jonathan Ray about the impact of the JLR hack + how we need to build resilient, locally rooted economies 📻 ⤵️
October 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
When one company – like Jaguar Land Rover – dominates a local economy, its crisis can ripple through communities 🌊
@oliver-chan.bsky.social spoke to @lbc.co.uk's Jonathan Ray about the impact of the JLR hack + how we need to build resilient, locally rooted economies 📻 ⤵️
@oliver-chan.bsky.social spoke to @lbc.co.uk's Jonathan Ray about the impact of the JLR hack + how we need to build resilient, locally rooted economies 📻 ⤵️
Some ✨ professional news ✨
📣 While the PM‘s been reshuffling, we’ve made a key appointment of our own!
👩🏻💼 Welcome @rosielockwood.bsky.social, our new Associate Director of External Affairs!
🧠 Rosie brings a wealth of experience to CLES' work on community wealth building & local economies.
🔗 cles.org.uk/about-cles/p...
👩🏻💼 Welcome @rosielockwood.bsky.social, our new Associate Director of External Affairs!
🧠 Rosie brings a wealth of experience to CLES' work on community wealth building & local economies.
🔗 cles.org.uk/about-cles/p...
Rosie Lockwood | CLES
cles.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Some ✨ professional news ✨
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A classroom of children dies every day in Gaza. Yet since the war started in October 2023, only 80 children have been granted visas to come to the UK.
✏️ @amreenqureshi.bsky.social writes about the need for a Gaza Family Visa Scheme 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-gaza-f...
✏️ @amreenqureshi.bsky.social writes about the need for a Gaza Family Visa Scheme 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-gaza-f...
The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine
With dozens of children dying in Gaza every day, the UK must show the same flexibility it demonstrated in past crises
www.opendemocracy.net
August 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A classroom of children dies every day in Gaza. Yet since the war started in October 2023, only 80 children have been granted visas to come to the UK.
✏️ @amreenqureshi.bsky.social writes about the need for a Gaza Family Visa Scheme 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-gaza-f...
✏️ @amreenqureshi.bsky.social writes about the need for a Gaza Family Visa Scheme 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-gaza-f...
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🎉10th ANNIVERSARY🎉
A decade ago, IPPR Scotland was established in a big moment of change to support progressive policymaking.
📢Now, as Scotland faces fresh challenges, we’re hosting a major conference to ask: What next?
🗓️Save the date: 29 Oct 2025
www.ippr.org/events/ippr-...
A decade ago, IPPR Scotland was established in a big moment of change to support progressive policymaking.
📢Now, as Scotland faces fresh challenges, we’re hosting a major conference to ask: What next?
🗓️Save the date: 29 Oct 2025
www.ippr.org/events/ippr-...
IPPR Scotland: 10th Anniversary Conference | IPPR
Ten years ago, in the wake of the Scottish Independence referendum, there emerged a clear need for a think tank to support progressive policymaking and fos
www.ippr.org
July 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🎉10th ANNIVERSARY🎉
A decade ago, IPPR Scotland was established in a big moment of change to support progressive policymaking.
📢Now, as Scotland faces fresh challenges, we’re hosting a major conference to ask: What next?
🗓️Save the date: 29 Oct 2025
www.ippr.org/events/ippr-...
A decade ago, IPPR Scotland was established in a big moment of change to support progressive policymaking.
📢Now, as Scotland faces fresh challenges, we’re hosting a major conference to ask: What next?
🗓️Save the date: 29 Oct 2025
www.ippr.org/events/ippr-...
Thanks to the RHS for their flower pot men bringing joy to Sheffield train station this morning. Ingenious marketing 🌺
July 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Thanks to the RHS for their flower pot men bringing joy to Sheffield train station this morning. Ingenious marketing 🌺
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Today #BBCBreakfast discussing tourism levies following @ipprnorth.bsky.social yesterday showing wide public support @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
Discussed #Manchester #Liverpool raising £6m a year & how it’s attracted #MTV awards & @britawards.bsky.social
Mayors need powers to go further
Discussed #Manchester #Liverpool raising £6m a year & how it’s attracted #MTV awards & @britawards.bsky.social
Mayors need powers to go further
July 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Today #BBCBreakfast discussing tourism levies following @ipprnorth.bsky.social yesterday showing wide public support @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
Discussed #Manchester #Liverpool raising £6m a year & how it’s attracted #MTV awards & @britawards.bsky.social
Mayors need powers to go further
Discussed #Manchester #Liverpool raising £6m a year & how it’s attracted #MTV awards & @britawards.bsky.social
Mayors need powers to go further
Today I’ve published an intervention @ipprnorth.bsky.social on visitor levies 🏨
Backed by calls from Mayors like Oliver Coppard and @davidskaith.bsky.social, the @yorkshirepost.co.uk says it puts pressure on Rachel Reeves to hand over the power to Mayors 🧵
Backed by calls from Mayors like Oliver Coppard and @davidskaith.bsky.social, the @yorkshirepost.co.uk says it puts pressure on Rachel Reeves to hand over the power to Mayors 🧵
July 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today I’ve published an intervention @ipprnorth.bsky.social on visitor levies 🏨
Backed by calls from Mayors like Oliver Coppard and @davidskaith.bsky.social, the @yorkshirepost.co.uk says it puts pressure on Rachel Reeves to hand over the power to Mayors 🧵
Backed by calls from Mayors like Oliver Coppard and @davidskaith.bsky.social, the @yorkshirepost.co.uk says it puts pressure on Rachel Reeves to hand over the power to Mayors 🧵
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Our Exec Director @hannahdavies.bsky.social has written for the @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social about how the free school meals announcement is a positive step, but the two-child cap cannot remain in force if child poverty is to be addressed newsletters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/hefrpKHwGlUl...
🦸♂️ The not-so-super councilNorthern Agenda
newsletters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Our Exec Director @hannahdavies.bsky.social has written for the @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social about how the free school meals announcement is a positive step, but the two-child cap cannot remain in force if child poverty is to be addressed newsletters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/hefrpKHwGlUl...
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Today’s the day 🗓️
The Spending Review is a chance to rewire the economy in favour of regions 🔌
All eyes now on The Chancellor 📺
🔗 politico.eu/article/rach...
The Spending Review is a chance to rewire the economy in favour of regions 🔌
All eyes now on The Chancellor 📺
🔗 politico.eu/article/rach...
June 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Today’s the day 🗓️
The Spending Review is a chance to rewire the economy in favour of regions 🔌
All eyes now on The Chancellor 📺
🔗 politico.eu/article/rach...
The Spending Review is a chance to rewire the economy in favour of regions 🔌
All eyes now on The Chancellor 📺
🔗 politico.eu/article/rach...
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Great to see a push from mayors for a visitor levy/tourist tax recently.
An absolute no brainer.
In the UK 5% of tax is raised locally/regionally - compared to 13% in France and 31% in Germany
Those countries have DOUBLE the rate of local economic investment
That's no coincidence
An absolute no brainer.
In the UK 5% of tax is raised locally/regionally - compared to 13% in France and 31% in Germany
Those countries have DOUBLE the rate of local economic investment
That's no coincidence
June 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Great to see a push from mayors for a visitor levy/tourist tax recently.
An absolute no brainer.
In the UK 5% of tax is raised locally/regionally - compared to 13% in France and 31% in Germany
Those countries have DOUBLE the rate of local economic investment
That's no coincidence
An absolute no brainer.
In the UK 5% of tax is raised locally/regionally - compared to 13% in France and 31% in Germany
Those countries have DOUBLE the rate of local economic investment
That's no coincidence
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Sometimes suspect the political argument “let’s build trams in the north” gets dismissed as “pacifying anti-London Brexit voters who aren’t grateful for their fiscal transfers”. No. There is a deep, broad social understanding here of the lag, and the economic reasons for closing it (even a bit!)
Today we lay bare a decade of broken promises as we reveal how the disparity in transport spending between the North & London has ballooned
If the North had seen the same transport investment as London under the previous government, it would have received £140bn more
If the North had seen the same transport investment as London under the previous government, it would have received £140bn more
June 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Sometimes suspect the political argument “let’s build trams in the north” gets dismissed as “pacifying anti-London Brexit voters who aren’t grateful for their fiscal transfers”. No. There is a deep, broad social understanding here of the lag, and the economic reasons for closing it (even a bit!)
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‘Am I better off?’ – at a general election, this is THE question voters will ask
New analysis shows living standards declined under the last government
This government can do better. We set out how.
👇
New analysis shows living standards declined under the last government
This government can do better. We set out how.
👇
June 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
‘Am I better off?’ – at a general election, this is THE question voters will ask
New analysis shows living standards declined under the last government
This government can do better. We set out how.
👇
New analysis shows living standards declined under the last government
This government can do better. We set out how.
👇
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UK parents with babies in neonatal care gain right to paid leave
UK parents with babies in neonatal care gain right to paid leave
Measures hailed as lifeline for parents will allow people with sick babies to take up to 12 weeks’ leave
Parents with children in neonatal care will gain a day-one right to paid leave and pay in a move hailed as “a lifeline for parents” with sick babies.
From Sunday, the measures will allow eligible parents to take up to 12 weeks of leave and pay, on top of maternity and paternity leave. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
UK parents with babies in neonatal care gain right to paid leave
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🚨 Today, we publish new research that lays bare the scale of child poverty in migrant families.
46% of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty - almost double the rate for other children. The govt cannot tackle child poverty without tackling issues in our migration system. 🧵⬇️
46% of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty - almost double the rate for other children. The govt cannot tackle child poverty without tackling issues in our migration system. 🧵⬇️
March 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🚨 Today, we publish new research that lays bare the scale of child poverty in migrant families.
46% of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty - almost double the rate for other children. The govt cannot tackle child poverty without tackling issues in our migration system. 🧵⬇️
46% of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty - almost double the rate for other children. The govt cannot tackle child poverty without tackling issues in our migration system. 🧵⬇️
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This time last week I spoke at the Home Affairs Select Committee about fixing our asylum accommodation system. We urgently need to shift power regionally and locally, improve safeguarding, and move away from mass sites - towards community solutions that work for everyone.
The asylum accommodation system is in urgent need of reform. It’s costing far too much while failing to provide people fleeing war and persecution with the safe, clean environments they need.
📺 @lucyhbmort.bsky.social speaking to Home Affairs Committee 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJVF...
📺 @lucyhbmort.bsky.social speaking to Home Affairs Committee 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJVF...
Dr Lucy Mort at the Home Affairs Committee discussing asylum accommodation
YouTube video by Institute for Public Policy Research
www.youtube.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This time last week I spoke at the Home Affairs Select Committee about fixing our asylum accommodation system. We urgently need to shift power regionally and locally, improve safeguarding, and move away from mass sites - towards community solutions that work for everyone.
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The North holds the key to solving to many of the country’s economic problems, if only we reverse abject underinvestment – where a northerner can expect the gov to spend less on them than their counterpart in London 🔑
✒️ @rosielockwood.bsky.social for The MJ
www.themj.co.uk/change-statu...
✒️ @rosielockwood.bsky.social for The MJ
www.themj.co.uk/change-statu...
Time to change the status quo
As the chancellor works on the Spending Review, she's doing more than balancing spreadsheets – she's designing the UK's future economy.
Will she stick with the...
www.themj.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The North holds the key to solving to many of the country’s economic problems, if only we reverse abject underinvestment – where a northerner can expect the gov to spend less on them than their counterpart in London 🔑
✒️ @rosielockwood.bsky.social for The MJ
www.themj.co.uk/change-statu...
✒️ @rosielockwood.bsky.social for The MJ
www.themj.co.uk/change-statu...
'Regional income growth is some of the slowest in Europe: real incomes in the majority of European regions have grown at a faster rate than those in UK'
Sobering analysis from @niesrorg.bsky.social ⤵️
Sobering analysis from @niesrorg.bsky.social ⤵️
⚡NEW REPORT OUT ⚡📢
"Poorest households in the UK now worse off than poorest households in Slovenia"
Our research shows that stagnation in real income growth in the last 15 years has caused UK living standards to plummet 📉🏘
Full report available here 🚨⬇
@ukri.org
niesr.ac.uk/publications...
"Poorest households in the UK now worse off than poorest households in Slovenia"
Our research shows that stagnation in real income growth in the last 15 years has caused UK living standards to plummet 📉🏘
Full report available here 🚨⬇
@ukri.org
niesr.ac.uk/publications...
UK Living Standards Review 2025 - NIESR
While some enjoy living standards comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest in the UK are now poorer than Slovenia and Malta.
niesr.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
'Regional income growth is some of the slowest in Europe: real incomes in the majority of European regions have grown at a faster rate than those in UK'
Sobering analysis from @niesrorg.bsky.social ⤵️
Sobering analysis from @niesrorg.bsky.social ⤵️
What an absolutely terrible metaphor to use for the north of England 👀
When asked about whether there should be a northern parliament, the shadow SoS says “let’s not reshuffle the deckchairs on the titanic” 🚢 #COTN25
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What an absolutely terrible metaphor to use for the north of England 👀
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We need a New Deal for the North.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Westminster be warned – Britain’s future will be decided in the north. Get on the right side of that | Andy Burnham
As political and business leaders meet for the Convention of the North, our position is clear: we need a genuine new deal, and soon, says Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We need a New Deal for the North.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good morning from my part of the North, where all trains to today’s *Convention of the North* are cancelled 🙃
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Good morning from my part of the North, where all trains to today’s *Convention of the North* are cancelled 🙃
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Happy new year! 🪇
Looking to the year ahead, @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social have helpfully compiled a list of key moments to look out for, from the Convention of the North to the Comprehensive Spending Review 🔍
Featuring a comment from @rosielockwood.bsky.social 🗣️
thenorthernagenda.co.uk
Looking to the year ahead, @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social have helpfully compiled a list of key moments to look out for, from the Convention of the North to the Comprehensive Spending Review 🔍
Featuring a comment from @rosielockwood.bsky.social 🗣️
thenorthernagenda.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Happy new year! 🪇
Looking to the year ahead, @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social have helpfully compiled a list of key moments to look out for, from the Convention of the North to the Comprehensive Spending Review 🔍
Featuring a comment from @rosielockwood.bsky.social 🗣️
thenorthernagenda.co.uk
Looking to the year ahead, @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social have helpfully compiled a list of key moments to look out for, from the Convention of the North to the Comprehensive Spending Review 🔍
Featuring a comment from @rosielockwood.bsky.social 🗣️
thenorthernagenda.co.uk