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5 Jun 2024
Starmer’s inbox: prescription for change – what’s Labour’s cure for the public health crisis?
Jon McLeod and Gina Watson take a look at the growing challenges facing the UK’s attempts to address its public health emergency and the difficult decisions that an incoming Labour government may need to make.
30 May 2024
Starmer’s inbox: higher education at a crossroads
The UK university sector faces near existential threats in the run-up to the General Election on 4 July 2024. Jon McLeod and Freddie Eltringham examine how funding troubles, free speech debates, and national security concerns could spark immediate challenges for a prospective Labour government.
17 May 2024
Navigating client reputation management: combined PR and legal considerations
DRD Partnership’s Kate Miller joined a panel on ‘Navigating Client Reputation Management: Combined PR and Legal Considerations’ at the ThoughtLeaders4 conference earlier this month.
8 May 2024
Why politics matters: Labour’s Jess Phillips MP packs DRD breakfast
The Birmingham MP says the Party must give voters ‘a big vision’ to believe in, writes Sophia Meadows.
25 Apr 2024
Podcast – How to handle the AI challenge
DRD Partnership’s Michael Rose joined Ashley Williams, Co-Leader of Mishcon de Reya's Technology Transactions Group, on their podcast to discuss the AI challenges and opportunities facing businesses.
19 Apr 2024
UK government outlines further changes to country’s investment screening regime
The government has announced further changes to the UK’s screening regime, governed by the National Security and Investment Act 2021. DRD Senior Associate, Ed Bowie assesses where the changes align with industry’s experience to date, and what the changes say about the government’s perspective on foreign investment.
18 Apr 2024
‘No complacency’ for Labour in the run up to the General Election
Labour’s frontbench, leading think-tankers and the polling industry gathered at a recent DRD Partnership breakfast to discuss how the Party should address the challenge of being considered a ‘shoe-in’ as the next Government. Michael Rose and Gina Watson report.
27 Mar 2024
What would a Labour Government mean for UK-China relations?
When Catherine West MP, Shadow Asia Minister, travelled to Beijing last week, she told senior Chinese government figures and businesses that “The next Labour government will take a strong, clear-eyed and consistent approach to China”. However, the detail of that approach still remains to be seen. In this report, DRD’s Jon McLeod and Charlie McAllister examine why a Labour government might be more hawkish on China.
22 Mar 2024
Shadow Culture Secretary lays out Labour’s cultural agenda at DRD roundtable
As part of a series of engagements with Labour’s Shadow Frontbench team, DRD Partnership was delighted to host Thangam Debbonaire MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport at a breakfast event held at the London Transport Museum.
29 Feb 2024
Lifting the veil on proceedings in the Family Courts
7BR’s Kitty Geddes and DRD Partnership’s Jon McLeod and Beatrix Lohn reflect on the extension of a Pilot Scheme that will allow journalists and legal bloggers to report on cases from almost half the Family courts in England and Wales.
22 Feb 2024
The roofs over our heads
At the end of February, the CMA will publish its final findings following a year-long market study into the housebuilding sector. In this report, DRD Associate Toby Chapman examines what is anticipated in the regulator’s report, and how it is likely to signal further uncertainty and political turbulence for the sector.
15 Feb 2024
Kickstarting a career in Strategic Communications
Rupert Bhatia, Senior Associate at DRD, offers some advice to those looking to start a career in media and communications.
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