A paper has been published today following the first Future Politics: Delivering Effective Government conference that took place in September.
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When the UK left the European Union, it left behind access to EU structural funding beyond 2020. Locally this is a loss of around £600 million per year. In the last few weeks, the UK Government launched its response - the UK Community Renewal Fund—a one-year pilot of distributing £220 million and which is meant to inform the design of the much-heralded UK Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF).
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Three years without a government, set against the backdrop of Brexit drawing ever closer, there was a palpable sense of cautious optimism when a deal was announced this time last year by the then Secretary of State, Julian Smith, and his counterpart in the Republic, Simon Coveney, heralding a “New Decade, New Approach”.
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In the two years since the party last gathered together for a conference, the SDLP has lost two MLAs, three MPs, were on the losing side of the EU referendum and the Assembly has collapsed.
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Exhibitors, delegates and members gathered at the Stormont Hotel, in Belfast, on Saturday for the Alliance Party conference. The focus in 2018 was very much on finding solutions to the current political impasse.
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