Northern towns should not have to compete among themselves for government attention to get desperately needed funding, Wigan’s MP has said.
Senior Labour and Conservative politicians outlined their competing visions for levelling up the North during a conference today, March 11.
And the Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Lisa Nandy, took the opportunity to slam the government for making Northern towns and cities compete for money controlled by Whitehall, rather than allowing communities in the region to drive its own recovery.
