Boris Johnson's Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove says he hopes people in the North East will feel they've been treated fairly when his Government reveals how much post-Brexit regeneration funding is coming to the region.
Speaking at the Convention of the North conference in Liverpool, senior Tory Mr Gove was challenged by Durham County Council leader Amanda Hopgood about how the UK's Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) would be divided equally.
Recent analysis by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership suggests that every region in England except Cornwall risks seeing a big drop in its funding when more details emerge about the successor to the UK's European Union funding.
