The Latest Breaking News from Norrn Powerhouse Partnership

HS2 high-speed trains may not reach Euston until around 2040

Transport Secretary Mark Harper promises to ‘prioritise’ first stage between Birmingham and new station at Old Oak Common

Evening Standard · Mar 9, 2023

Britain's broken train and bus systems 'costing the North dear', Tories told

Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh will promise to 'spark a northern renaissance' by reversing the Tories' betrayal on Northern Powerhouse Rail and HS2 and vow to 'turn the page on a decade of decline'

Daily Mirror · Mar 5, 2023

Rishi Sunak gives his own wealthy constituency £19m to 'level-up'

The Prime Minister announced the cash to regenerate the town centre in Catterick six months after footage emerged of him boasting about diverting levelling-up funds from deprived, urban areas

Daily Mirror · Jan 18, 2023

GCSE results expose 'gaping' north-south divide - see difference in your area

'These results suggest the government has not just failed the north of England, but systematically failed many of the poorest children in our country', an expert declared

Daily Mirror · Aug 25, 2022

GCSE results expected to confirm widening of north-south attainment gap

Tory leadership candidates called on to commit to fixing growing regional disparities in education

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2022

Northerners earn £8,404 less despite years of Tory promises to 'level-up'

The figures were revealed to the Mirror by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership as the Conservative Party leadership hustings roll into the heart of the Red Wall

Daily Mirror · Aug 8, 2022

£3bn devolution deal for North East mayor and 17,000 new jobs is 'in national interest'

Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, says the ambitious package would "build a better future for Blaydon to Berwick, Hendon to Heaton”

Chronicle Live · Jun 28, 2022

Eight years since George Osborne's 'Northern Powerhouse' speech... and business leaders still fighting for the railway he promised

“The Government isn’t doing just one thing to upset businesses in Greater Manchester - first it cut NPR to Leeds, now the HS2 station at Piccadilly and the station at the airport."

Manchester Evening News · Jun 23, 2022

Best academy trusts would not go north, says Northern Powerhouse chief

The best multi-academy trusts would find the North ‘too hot’ for their reputations, says an expert.

The Independent UK · May 19, 2022

‘An outrage’: Tories’ post-Brexit fund will not match EU grants until 2025

Shared Prosperity Fund criticised as ‘serious blow to levelling up’, with poorest regions predicted to lose out on millions

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2022