Skip to content

July 16, 2020

Downtown Den #100 | The Role of Local Enterprise Partnerships

  • by chris

Three Local Enterprise Partnership chairs from across the Northern Powerhouse were in conversation with DIB boss Frank McKenna, offering their thoughts and opinions on how the UK and the North in particular can recover from the Coronavirus crisis.

A Chinese boycott would be daft

If we rip up trade agreements on the basis of human rights breaches and aggression towards other nations, it is not only China that would have to be on a list of blacklisted countries. Frank McKenna on why walking away from the Chinese is a daft idea.

The North and Curbing the Chinese Dragon

Jim backs the government’s stand on China even though it might have implications for the Northern Powerhouse. He also aims a broadside at the BBC for cutting local programmes.

Lancashire Forum Creative think tank: Market like an influencer

Social media influencers are all the rage at the moment, their Instagram accounts filled to the brim with photogenic images and tips to live a better life. In this interactive online Think Tank marketing expert Sam Keenan from +24 Marketing will analyse an influencer’s approach.