We out a bold proposal for a new transport card that unites buses, trams, inter-city coaches and rail across the North of England into a single, best-value fare system. A pan-Northern “tap-and-go” card can unlock higher productivity, reduce regional inequalities, and reflect the public’s strong appetite for deeper cooperation between Northern cities. Designed to align with major infrastructure upgrades and support a future Northern Olympic and Paralympic bid, the North Card is presented as practical, visible infrastructure that connects the region’s cities, towns and villages while underpinning long-term good growth.

Read Ralph Blackburn’s article on our Oyster Card for the North in The Yorkshire Post.

Read Rob Parsons article on our campaign for a Northern Oyster Card in Manchester Evening News.

Read about our new campaign for a North Card in The i Paper.

Praful introduced the Good Growth Foundation’s Bringing Defence Home agenda, arguing that in a more turbulent world Britain must fuse national security with economic security by backing domestic defence industry, SMEs and cyber resilience. He sets out our proposals for a Defence Bank, stricter incentives on prime contractors and a new focus on local cyber protection, so that every pound of defence spending strengthens sovereign capability, regional economies and lasting security at home.

Defence Secretary John Healey joined the Good Growth Foundation to set out how Labour plans to bring defence home - turning increased defence spending into secure jobs, thriving industries and stronger communities across the UK. He argued that every pound of defence investment must work twice, delivering both the hard power Britain needs in a more dangerous world and the opportunity working families deserve.

Watch John Healey’s speech and in-conversation in full on Sky News.

Read Larisa Brown’s article in The Times

Read Dan Sabbagh’s article in The Guardian.

Read Mark Nicol’s article in The Daily Mail.

Read Ellen Milligan’s article in Bloomberg.

Read Mason Boycott-Owen’s article in Politico.

Read about our defence research and policies on LBC.

Read Zoe Crowther’s article on our report, ‘Bringing Defence Home’ in PoliticsHome.

Read GGF Director Praful Nargund’s oped in The Observer.

New polling from GGF shows Britons are prepared to make trade-offs for closer relations with the EU, read more from Will Hazell in The i Paper.

Read the article in The Times.

Read GGF Director Praful Nargund’s speech at our National Growth Debate.

See what what was said at the National Growth Debate in The Financial Times.

Watch Secretary of State Ed Miliband’s speech at our National Growth Debate in full on Sky News.