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It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...

Good article. The centralising power's principal tools are Treasury models; if you base decisions on land and employment value then areas that ALREADY have highest land prices wages always win. 1/n

Changing those models to prioritise improving transport links a key solution. There's no point talking of Leeds-Manchester-Liverpool as potential economic megacity when Leeds-Bradford-Huddersfield-Wakefield don't today because of the awful transport links between and within them.