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Freeports

April 2024

  • Chris McEwan (right), Labour’s candidate for the Tees Valley mayoral election on 2 May, speaks to Ory Vanes, a deli owner in Darlington’s market.

    ‘We have to get the basics right’: Labour’s Chris McEwan in Tees Valley

    Party hopes to take mayoralty from Tories but incumbent Ben Houchen is still popular with voters, defying national mood

January 2024

  • The entrance to Teesworks. The review into the regeneration project at Redcar was ordered by the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove in May 2023.

    Teesworks review criticises freeport project’s secrecy and value for money

  • Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference<br>Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in central London. Picture date: Tuesday October 31, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Arc. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Gove refuses to set deadline for investigation into Tees freeport ‘corruption’

May 2023

  • Teesworks is Europe’s largest brownfield site and the UK’s largest industrial zone

    Michael Gove orders review into corruption allegations at Teesside freeport

    Investigation of Teesworks project to be led by independent panel of his choosing, not National Audit Office
  • Boris Johnson outside his house in March.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Boris Johnson claims publication of Covid inquiry ruling unfairly implies he is holding back documents – as it happened

    Boris Johnson letter complains process is ‘unfair’ towards him and confirms he is asking new lawyers to represent him
  • British Chambers of Commerce conference<br>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking during the British Chambers Commerce Annual Global conference, at the QEII Centre, London. Picture date: Wednesday May 17, 2023. PA Photo. The conference will be one of the year's largest meetings of business chiefs and senior political figures following the cancellation of the Confederation of British Industry's annual gathering. See PA story POLITICS BCC. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer says Labour will prioritise growth which will mean ‘better jobs, public services, holidays and more cash’ – as it happened

    Labour leader gives address to BCC conference and outlines mission for UK to have highest sustained growth in G7 in next parliament

November 2022

  • Fishing crews stage a protest in Teesport, Middlesbrough, near the mouth of the River Tees

    Today in Focus
    The mystery of Teesside’s dead crabs

    When thousands of crabs started washing up on the beaches of Teesside in north-east England, authorities blamed algae in the water. But the fishers watching their livelihoods disappear weren’t buying it. Joshua Kelly reports

September 2022

  • A road under construction at Parkside, a joint venture between the property developer Langtree and St Helens council

    ‘Right place at the right time’: freeports model gives fillip to St Helens regeneration scheme

  • Whitby in North Yorkshire.

    ‘We just want the truth’: British coastal towns fight for answers over mystery sealife deaths

August 2022

  • The former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen visit the Teesside freeport in Redcar in July.

    Freeports will drive growth, not criminality

    Letters: Richard Ballantyne celebrates the potential of freeports, but Neil Davidson warns of the risk that they will simply take business from other locations
  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    National Trust members: get ready to choke on your carrot cake

    Stewart Lee
    The creeping pushback against the ‘woke’ won’t stop until we’re neck-deep in deregulated dystopia
  • George Monbiot

    Welcome to the freeport, where turbocapitalism tramples over British democracy

    George Monbiot
    From Teesside to Plymouth, these ‘special economic zones’ are shrouded in secrecy – and only benefit big business, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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