Northerners "should move south", says think-tank

Regen.net, 13 August 2008

A decade of regeneration policies have failed to close the North-South divide and residents of struggling northern towns should be encouraged to move south to areas of greater opportunity, the Conservative Party's favourite think-tank argued today.

The report by centre-right think-tank the Policy Exchange, argues that Labour's regeneration policies have failed to close the North-South divide and argues that England's 19th century economic geography must be...

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