Climbing the Summit: Big cities in the UK and the G7

A common benchmark for the UK economy is how it performs against other G7 countries. Despite this, very little is understood about how cities in the G7 measure up, and how this affects the performance of the seven national economies. For the first time, this report does that. It shows how the prosperity gap that exists between the UK and the G7 top performers of the USA, France and Germany is the result of the underperformance of the UK’s secondary cities. They trail well behind their G7 peers, seven of the bottom 20 large cities for productivity in the G7 are British, which impacts on the UK’s overall performance.