Why The Government Mustn’t Forget Coastal Areas in its Spring Statement
- laurendoble
- Mar 27, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Jan 13
Head of ESG, Chris Kerr covers the main reasons why the government mustn’t forget coastal areas in its Spring Statement in a BE News article.
"Over the past 40 years, the party that has secured the most seats in ‘the sea wall’ has always won the general election. Coastal constituents are electoral bellwethers who traditionally vote Conservative but, as in 1997 and again in 2024, will change their votes if they feel they have reason to.
These reasons can include feeling left behind as a result of insufficient investment and a perceived lack of care for coastal communities within the corridors of Westminster. Fed up with faring worse than the rest of the population on all metrics for prosperity and wellbeing, coastal communities last year voted for a new government, with 69 coastal seats changing hands in total, even more than during Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide victory."
Read the full article: https://benews.co.uk/insight/why-the-government-mustnt-forget-coastal-areas-in-its-spring-statement/
Chris Kerr (Head of ESG)
Christopher heads up Davitt Jones Bould's Environmental, Social and Governance Special Interest Group, and has a particular focus on biodiversity & natural capital, town and city regeneration projects, charitable organisations and the public sector.
