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The UK government approval of the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea was expected despite the criticism that researchers and advocacy groups have raised over the years. How does Jackdaw impact the UK's standing on global conversations concerning climate change?

This report examines the realities beneath the language of “levelling up”, competitiveness and renewal. It argues that UK freeports must be understood not simply as experimental economic tools, but as an increasingly common spatial strategy in which legal, political and institutional norms are selectively reworked.