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Helen Corbett

Rayner to tout ‘power shift’ of devolution plans to leaders in the North

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner (Leon Neal/PA) - (PA Wire)

Angela Rayner will tell leaders in the north of England that she will help them “break” the system that “hoards power and investment” away from them in a speech on Friday.

The Deputy Prime Minister will call her English Devolution programme the “biggest power shift in a generation” at the annual Convention of the North event, being held this year in Preston.

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