18 Jun 2024

With Labour counting on growth to provide the resources required to pay for improvements in public services, Jon McLeod and Ed Bowie explore whether it will be up to the Party’s industrial strategy to deliver the goods.

12 Jun 2024

Foreign policy is often overlooked in general election campaigns, but Labour will face an unprecedented set of global challenges if it assumes power next month, write Jon McLeod and Harry Webster.

5 Jun 2024

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

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

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

The Birmingham MP says the Party must give voters ‘a big vision’ to believe in, writes Sophia Meadows.

25 Apr 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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.