The trouble with Pride in Place
New Statesman · 9 Nov 2026

The trouble with Pride in Place

Keir Starmer came to power promising to rebuild trust in the places that had lost faith in his party and in Westminster. A new paper by Phil Tinline, One Problem, Many Goals, analyses what went wrong. Tinline uses the £6bn Pride in Place programme, and the broader neighbourhood agenda, as a prism through which to examine how a government that was committed to helping the most left-behind areas ended up acquiring a reputation for not doing enough.


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