BOOK LAUNCH - Devolution in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region

This event is to launch the book Devolution in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region. It will also consider the progress of these two new mayoral combined authorities alongside the fate of the wider Levelling Up Project. Professors Georgina Blakeley and Brendan Evans will introduce their new book in a short presentation before asking Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Labour Councillor Liam Robinson to reflect on the main lessons from the research. The discussion will be chaired by Andrew Carter of Centre for Cities.

This event will be of interest to:

• All GM and LCR MPs and council leaders;
• Local councillors and officers from the local authorities of GM, the LCR and across the North;
• Students, academics, researchers interested in the topics of politics and devolution;
• Political activists, political parties and pressure groups;
• Policy makers working in health, transport, skills, economic development, the environment, public service reform.

Speakers:

, Professor of Democracy and Governance, University of Huddersfield

Professor Brendan Evans, Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow, University of Huddersfield

, Mayor of Greater Manchester

, Chief Executive, Centre for Cities

, Liverpool City Labour Councillor

Host or Publisher School of Human and Health Sciences