Remember Boris Johnson's suggestion in 2020 that Parliament could move temporarily to York while the crumbling Palace of Westminster is repaired? Genuine or not, the idea never got off the ground.
But investigative journalist Sam Bright suggests going the whole hog and moving the nation's central democratic institution up the M1 to Leeds in a move that would "create a new centre of economic and political power".
In his new book 'Fortress London' the Huddersfield-born author, who now lives in the capital, sets out how the dominance of our biggest city contributes to the huge regional inequalities that hold back much of the country.
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And he tells The Northern Agenda podcast that the UK would do well to follow the example of Germany, whose national assets are spread more evenly in different cities like Frankfurt, Berlin and Dortmund rather than being concentrated in one place.
