Government should commit to a ‘whole North’ approach to development rather than just focusing on the Manchester region, a new IPPR think tank report says, calling on northern leaders to move the agenda to a new phase.
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LocalGov writes:
The annual IPPR report, entitled State of the North 2018: Reprioritising the Northern Powerhouse, emphasises that the original vision of developing the North overlooked the people of the region…
The Northern Powerhouse agenda has also been ‘severely undercut’ by the Government’s ‘self-defeating’ programme of austerity, it says…
The new phase, according to IPPR, should involve a focus on transport infrastructure…
