Two centuries on, and the “northern powerhouse” has just turned five. In its birthday assessment, IPPR North concludes that the northern powerhouse has been held back by austerity. Child poverty up and pay lagging since northern powerhouse launch Read moreI am a member of the all-party parliamentary group for the northern powerhouse, I have attended its events and will continue to contribute constructively in any way I can. After a few years they realised that even as a fiction, one nation Toryism/Liberalism required some policies, and so we got the northern powerhouse. George Osborne should have done the same for the northern powerhouse.

Source: The Guardian June 24, 2019 09:43 UTC